Chaucerian Poetics and the Prologue to the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Peck, Russell A.
Chaucerian Poetics and the Prologue to the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 39-55.
- Description
- As an ars poetica, LGWP shows that the poet is not a creator but a mediator, balancing vision with experience. This action serves to mediate between the extremes of "cupiditas" and "caritas," tempering the former with the latter.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.