Separations and St. Paul's Thorn in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Hiscoe, David W.
Separations and St. Paul's Thorn in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 35-49.
- Description
- Although the narrator of TC tries to separate pagan from Christian and body from spirit, the poem's allusions to 2 Corinthinians are an "indictment of (his) disastrous attempt to sunder the heavenly and the earthly."
- Alternative Title
- Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.