Chaucer's "Art Poetical": A Study of Chaucerian Poetics
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
Chaucer's "Art Poetical": A Study of Chaucerian Poetics
- Published
- Tubingen : Narr, 1980.
- Series
- Studies and Texts in English, no. 1.
- Description
- A pattern of Chaucerian poetics emerges through four themes--courtly love, morality, order, and poetry--found in his early poetry (BD, HF, and KnT). Starting as a poet of courtly love, Chaucer overcame limitations of this theme by analyzing its philosophical, moral, and artistic implications; assessing ethical values; searching for a principle of order; and determining the function of poetry.
- His quest leads from a limited awareness of the power of poetry to the recognition that the poetic act creates order in a confused world--the essence of Chaucerian poetics as seen in BD, PF, HF, and KnT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Knight and His Tale.