Chaucer, Pope, and the House of Fame

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
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.