'Ut Pictura Poesis': Dryden's 'Aeneis' and 'Palamon and Arcite'

Author / Editor
Doederlin, Sue Warrick.

Title
'Ut Pictura Poesis': Dryden's 'Aeneis' and 'Palamon and Arcite'

Published
Comparative Literature 33 (1981): 156-66.

Description
In his translation of KnT, Dryden imposed a number of pictorial effects--colors, emblems, icons, static scenes, and landscapes--to transform Chaucer into a seventeenth-century gentleman.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Knight and His Tale.