Poetic Immediacy in Chaucer and Dryden

Author / Editor
Piper, William Bowman.

Title
Poetic Immediacy in Chaucer and Dryden

Published
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 30 (1988): 478-95.

Description
Comparison of Chaucer's NPT with Dryden's version reveals that Chaucer focused on individual human action while Dryden approached the tale through satire of human social conditions. The "human immediacy" of Chaucer's tale may be its outstanding characteristic.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.