The Influence of the Classics on Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
The Influence of the Classics on Chaucer
- Published
- Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 185-201.
- Description
- Chaucer's favorite Latin author was Ovid, followed by Virgil and Statius, as well as several prose writers. The central problem in evaluating the Latin influence on Chaucer is to determine what sorts of manuscripts he used--not just texts,but glosses, commentaries, and the entire apparatus of his contemporary medieval scholarship.
- Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.
- Alternative Title
- Companion to Chaucer Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.