Wyatt and Chaucer: A Re-Appraisal

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
Wyatt and Chaucer: A Re-Appraisal

Published
Leeds Studies in English 13 (1982): 104-23.

Description
Wyatt's awareness of the power of direct language is Chaucerian, as is the flexibility of his use of rhyme royal. Unlike Chaucer, however, Wyatt is a poet of the contraries existing within the individual, and whereas Chaucer advocates a stable mind in an ordered society, Wyatt stresses inner integrity and self-sufficiency in the face of mutability.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.