From Chaucer to Whitman and Eliot: Cosmic Union and the Classical/Christian Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.,and Patricia Lee Youngue.
From Chaucer to Whitman and Eliot: Cosmic Union and the Classical/Christian Tradition
- Published
- Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 55 (1981): 19-43.
- Description
- The Virgilian "Iuppiter descendens" in CT combines the sacred and the profane. Sexual motivation governs the behavior and storytelling of some of the pilgrims. Medieval man was able to integrate the serious with the comical because he possessed a Christian-Classical vision that embraced both physicality and spirituality.
- Contributor
- Youngue, Patricia Lee.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.