Images of Chaucer in the Seventeenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Neil Shettron.
Images of Chaucer in the Seventeenth Century
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 1974. Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 4429A. Fully accessible via https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/e41db9a3-cbe2-459e-b630-5ab1c84f5eea (accessed April 12, 2026).
- Physical Description
- iii, 218 pp.
- Description
- The reasons for Chaucer's low reputation in the seventeenth century were as much aesthetic as linguistic. He was a pawn in the battle over enrichment of the language; his works violated the principles of decorum; the medieval genres he used had disappeared; when his works were modernized, their stylistic richness was lost.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.