Zum Mittelaltereinfluss in der modernen Dichtung: Ezra Pounds Chaucerbild

Author / Editor
Gugelberger, Georg [M.]

Title
Zum Mittelaltereinfluss in der modernen Dichtung: Ezra Pounds Chaucerbild

Published
Orbis Litterarum 35 (1980): 220-34.

Description
In "ABC of Reading" Pound praises Chaucer above Shakespeare and Dante, and in his "Cantos" he makes important use of Chaucer's works, the short poems especially. Chaucer provides a setting-off point for understanding Pound's ideas about poetry and his manner of composition.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.