Chaucer Among the Gods: The Poetics of Classical Myth

Author / Editor
McCall, John P.

Title
Chaucer Among the Gods: The Poetics of Classical Myth

Published
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.

Physical Description
200 pp.

Description
Discusses the ways in which Chaucer uses classical materials in comedy, tragedy, and allegory; in theme, action, and character, to make available the world of Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan--sometimes through Dante, Graunson, Boccaccio, and Froissart.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.