Reading Allegory in the Old Poet and the New: The 'Canterbury Tales' and the 1590 'Faerie Queene'

Author / Editor
Sherman, Mark A.

Title
Reading Allegory in the Old Poet and the New: The 'Canterbury Tales' and the 1590 'Faerie Queene'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 163A.

Description
The two great poems of Chaucer and Spenser employ poetics even closer to each other than previously recognized. Just as Th in contrast to KnT revises perception of CT, Spenser's Thopas subverts orthodox interpretation. Both poems, by deferring their destinations, shift focus to the "here and now."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Knight and His Tale.
Tale of Sir Thopas.