Chaucer, Love Poetry, and Romantic Love

Author / Editor
Kane, George.

Title
Chaucer, Love Poetry, and Romantic Love

Published
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 237-55.

Description
Chaucer derived his concepts of love poetry from various contemporary traditions of romantic love. He satirized the concepts of "fin amour" with a firm knowledge of its contrasting forms and unpredictable variety, utilizing all its aspects from its loftiest virginal adulation to its basis in sexual eroticism.

Alternative Title
Acts of Interpretation.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.