Machaut's Legacy: The Chaucerian Inheritance Reconsidered
- Author / Editor
- Calin, William.
Machaut's Legacy: The Chaucerian Inheritance Reconsidered
- Published
- Studies in the Literary Imagination 20 (1987): 9-22.
- Description
- The French influence on Chaucer is undervalued. Machaut's "La Fonteinne amoureuse" provided the model for BD; his "Judgement dou Roy de Navarre" inspired LGWP; "Le voir dit" has a direct tie with ManT; ; "Le voir dit" and "La Fonteinne amoureuse" influenced MerT. Some techniques considered original with Chaucer, even the narrator-persona, actually came from Machaut.
- Revised version published in R. Barton Palmer, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 29-46.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.