Chaucer and the European 'Rose'
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
Chaucer and the European 'Rose'
- Published
- Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 61-67.
- Description
- Examines the influence of "Roman de la Rose" on European literature; Brunetto Latini, "ser Durante," Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer. "Five generations of Italian poets...defined their individual enterprise" against the "Rose." Chaucer concentrated their efforts into one lifetime as he fashioned a "vulgaris illustris" from a recalcitrant vernacular.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.