Chaucer and the European Literary Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Chaucer and the European Literary Tradition
- Published
- George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 37-54.
- Description
- Chaucer's poetry is highly dependent on Latin, French, and Italian works and genres, and on medieval thought in general. In his day his various works represented stages in the development of different medieval literary traditions; he borrowed from other authors as a conscious method for adding multivalent significance to his own works.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.