Making and Poetry in the Age of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Olson, Glending.

Title
Making and Poetry in the Age of Chaucer

Published
Comparative Literature 31 (1979): 272-90.

Description
Chaucer's distinction between "makere" and "poete" is found elsewhere in medieval writings. Serving both to separate classical from contemporary and to distinguish artistic quality from moral seriousness, the distinction suggests the relationship between vernacular versifiers and Latin Christian humanists.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.