Reading Allegory in the Old Poet and the New: The 'Canterbury Tales' and the 1590 'Faerie Queene'
- Author / Editor
- Sherman, Mark A.
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.