Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on "Troilus and Criseyde"
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on "Troilus and Criseyde"
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.
- Description
- A study of literary allusion in the "Troilus," with specific reference to the "Roman de la Rose," Virgil, Ovid, Statius, and Dante. Suggests that the poet-narrator of the poem evolves from a writer in the tradition of courtly romance to a poet in the tradition of the classical "poetae."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.