Eloquence and Morality in the Old Poet and the New: Chaucer and Spenser
- Author / Editor
- Hardman, C. B.
Eloquence and Morality in the Old Poet and the New: Chaucer and Spenser
- Published
- Reading Medieval Studies 6 (1980): 20-30.
- Description
- Though Chaucer's reputation in the 16th century depended partly on works wrongly attributed to him, he was thought of as a proto-Puritan thinker, a model of eloquence, a love poet. Thus Spenser found it advantageous in the "Shepheardes Calendar" to see himself as descendant of "the olde famous Poete Chaucer," imitating him (or Chaucerian apocrypha) in the eclogues of November, December, May, June,and July; and by paying homage to him in the concluding eclogues, which echo TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.