Chaucer's Muses and His 'Art Poetical'

Author / Editor
Hardman, Phillipa.

Title
Chaucer's Muses and His 'Art Poetical'

Published
Review of English Studies 37 (1986): 478-94.

Description
Studies Chaucer's sources, invocations to, and use of the muses in Anel, HF, TC, and CT. The use in CT is humorous. In HF, the muses are a "metaphorical model" for the "art poetical." In TC, muses chart the changing attitudes of the narrator.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.