Images of Chaucer in the Seventeenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Neil Shettron.
Images of Chaucer in the Seventeenth Century
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 4429A
- 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.