Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

Published
Cambridge:
Totowa, N.J.: D. S. Brewer;
Barnes & Noble, 1984.

Series
Chaucer Studies, no. 10.

Description
HF, a turning point in Chaucer's career and in English literary culture, reflects attitudes toward fame and glory from Homer to the Scholastics to writers of the Italian "trecento." The poem deals with issues of fame, poetry, and linguistic theory and explores archetypal imagery. HF is probably "in-finite" rather than unfinished.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.