Towards a Chaucerian Poetic

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Towards a Chaucerian Poetic

Published
London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Physical Description
36 pp.

Description
Chaucer's remarks in the Prologue to LGW provide a guide to his poetic. The basic poles of reference are the inner point of the narrative itself and the outer details of the tradition in which it is realized, but Chaucer also introduces the conflicting referents of "life" and the author's self-expression.
Reprinted from PBA 60 (1974).

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.