Chaucer and Ovid
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Chaucer and Ovid
- Published
- New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
- Description
- Unlike Ovid and Dante, who speak for fate and the universal order, Chaucer and Ovid speak for "the comic pathos of human frailty and human pretensions." The central concern of Chaucer's HF, BD, PF, LGW, TC, KnT, and NPT is with the attempt, and failure, of the narrator or his surrogate to remain detached and to control the flow of events. This Ovidian paradigm provides a fresh reading of the poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.