Some Chaucerian Themes in Scottish Writers

Author / Editor
Gray, Douglas.

Title
Some Chaucerian Themes in Scottish Writers

Published
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp. 81-90.

Description
King James, Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas were influenced by Chaucer rhetorically and stylistically, as well as in their choices of genre; but Gray emphasizes the influence of Chaucer's ideas and themes--noting particularly how Chaucer's "powers" of Nature and Fortune and the admirable human qualities of "pite" and "gentilesse," in KnT, WBT, and PF, influenced these Scottish writers.

Alternative Title
Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.