From 'Benigne Love' to the 'Blynde and Wynged Sone': Troilus and Criseyde' as a Literary Critique of 'Filostrato' and the Tradition of Courtly Love Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Fish, Varda.
From 'Benigne Love' to the 'Blynde and Wynged Sone': Troilus and Criseyde' as a Literary Critique of 'Filostrato' and the Tradition of Courtly Love Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1628-29A.
- Description
- Comparison of Chaucer's poem with Boccaccio's reveals the narrator in conflict with the story as Chaucer himself both came into conflict with the ideas and ideals represented and also understood his role as poet. As lovers are seduced by a seemingly divine passion, poet and audience may be seduced by love poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.