Chaucer and the European 'Rose'

Author / Editor
Wallace, David.

Title
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.