Medieval Readers and Ancient Texts: The Influence of the Past
- Author / Editor
- Baswell, Christopher C.
Medieval Readers and Ancient Texts: The Influence of the Past
- Published
- Envoi 1 (1988): 1-22.
- Description
- This review article assesses four recent books on how the Middle Ages responded to classical literature: Ralph Hexter's "Ovid and Medieval Schooling," the essay collection "Lectures medievales de Virgile," Jean-Charles Huchet's "Le Roman medieval" (mainly a psychoanalytic reading of the "Eneas"), and Winthrop Wetherbee's "Chaucer and the Poets."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.