The Influence of Dante on Medieval English Dream Visions
- Author / Editor
- Payne, Roberta L.
The Influence of Dante on Medieval English Dream Visions
- Published
- New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, and Paris: Peter Lang, 1989.
- Series
- American University Studies, 2d ser., Romance Languages and literature, vol. 63.
- Description
- Payne first considers the question of Dante's influence on fourteenth-century English poets and the ways it can be studied. In the following four chapters, she examines the relationship of the "Divine Comedy" to "Pearl" and to HF, studies the Dantesque elements in PF, and compares Criseyde's dream of the eagle in TC to the second chapter of the "Vita Nuova." Finally, she discusses Lydgate and James I: "Chaucer has become their Dante."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion