'Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano': Dante, Statius and the Narrator of Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
'Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano': Dante, Statius and the Narrator of Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 153-76.
- Description
- Parallels between the "Thebiad" and TC, particularly when viewed in light of the Christianized Statius in Dante's "Purgatorio," point to a pattern of engagement and transcendence that characterizes Chaucer's narrator. At the end of TC, the narrator discovers his independence from his pagan material, realizes first what it means to be a poet and then what it means to be a Christian poet.
- Alternative Title
- Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.