Tearing or Breathing: Dante's Influence on 'Filostrato' and 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Havely, Nicholas (R.)

Title
Tearing or Breathing: Dante's Influence on 'Filostrato' and 'Troilus'

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. 51-59.

Description
The development of literary imagery and language in TC, book 3, reveals the distinctiveness of Chaucer's approach to Dante's "Purgatorio;" Chaucer's power and control over the language far exceed Boccaccio's in the "Filostrato."

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.