Chaucer's Continental Inheritance: The Early Poems and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
Chaucer's Continental Inheritance: The Early Poems and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 19-37.
- Description
- Traces Chaucer's increasingly creative use of sources and development as a poet: his treatment of French materials in Rom, BD, and HF; his use of Dante in BD and HF; his adaptation of Boccaccio in Anel, PF, and TC; and his own developing, distinctively "English" voice in PF, HF, and TC. In TC, Chaucer "align(s) himself with the greatest European poets" but also "speak(s) like an English romancer.
- Alternative Title
- The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.