Some Intellectual Themes in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
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.