Wyatt and Chaucer: 'They Fle from Me' Revisited

Author / Editor
Kay, Dennis.

Title
Wyatt and Chaucer: 'They Fle from Me' Revisited

Published
Huntington Library Quarterly 47 (1984): 211-26.

Description
Wyatt, at his most allusive in this poem, used Petrarchan strategies that Chaucer had used effectively. Wyatt's audience would have recognized and appreciated the vocabulary as intensely and specifically Chaucerian, reminiscent of the world of TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.