Chaucer Transformed 1700-1721
- Author / Editor
- Berry, Reginald.
Chaucer Transformed 1700-1721
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1979): 231A.
- Description
- The poets' adaptations of Chaucer's work in this era reflect the nature and principles of Chaucerian transformation for the eighteenth century. In his "Fables" Dryden emphasized the moral nature of the original poems and thus established a tradition which Pope and the members of the Scriblerus Club, among others, were to follow. By the time of Urry's 1721 edition, the scholarly and popular tradition of the seventeenth century had coalesced in the common reader.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.