Some Intellectual Themes in Chaucer's Poetry

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
Some Intellectual Themes in Chaucer's Poetry

Published
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 75-91.

Description
Chaucer deals with a concern of earlier poets--humanity's place in the universe--and with concerns of his own time--the bases and abuses of civil and ecclesiastical authority, the limits of human freedom, and the implications of will and character--not by providing answers but by using characters to test values.

Alternative Title
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.