Chaucer, Pope, and the House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Chaucer, Pope, and the House of Fame
- Published
- James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 149-59.
- Description
- Alexander Pope wrote a youthful imitation of HF Book 3, entitled the Temple of Fame. Pope's imitation of Chaucer and his reworking of that imitation in the Dunciad show he had assimilated Chaucer's troubling thoughts about the centrality and ambiguities of language.
- Alternative Title
- Idea of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- House of Fame.