Chaucerian Criticism: The Significance of Varying Perspectives

Author / Editor
Ridley, Florence H.

Title
Chaucerian Criticism: The Significance of Varying Perspectives

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 81 (1980): 131-41.

Description
Chaucer's enduring appeal derives from his poetry's visuality,its presentation of unchanging human behavior, its deliberate ambiguity. The broad ranges of psychological criticism are viable as long as they are understood as imaginative constructs of the critics and not the poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.