Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Writers as Readers of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Writers as Readers of Chaucer
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988): pp. 90-104.
- Description
- Chaucer's "multiplicity of competing voices" has encouraged modern critics to focus on his "openness." Strohm examines reader reception of Chaucer in contemporaries and followers: Clanvowe, Scogan, Lydgate, and Henryson. Clanvowe, like Chaucer, writing with "pragmatic freedom" and "unshaped by social expectation," adopted Chaucer's "multi-vocal" style.
- Lacking such freedom, the fifteenth-century poets showed appreciation for Chaucer's complex perspectives but, in a "situation which encouraged ethically unequivocal verse," adopted a "single-voiced aesthetic."
- Alternative Title
- Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.