Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy"
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Karla.
Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy"
- Published
- Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
- Physical Description
- vi, 289 pp.
- Description
- Chaucer was indebted to Dante for turns of phrases, images, stories, and poetic and philosophical aims. Chaucer's most pervasive use of Dante was as "a spur and a background against which he defined his own, very different poetic and moral vision."
- Dante views his souls in the "Commedia" under the aspect of death and judgment; Chaucer views his pilgrims in CT as inhabitants within the world and time who can change right up to the moment of death. Dante studies divine love; in TC, Chaucer explores the temporal bounds that define human experience, particularly the central human experience of love. Taylor also studies linguistic and narrative differences in BD, CT, HF, LGW, PF, and TC. Four chapters treat Chaucerian tragedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Parliament of Fowls.