The Dialectics of Debate and the Continuity of English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Tripp, Raymond P.,Jr.
The Dialectics of Debate and the Continuity of English Poetry
- Published
- Massachusetts Studies in English 7 (1978): 41-49.
- Description
- Small debates turn on method, large debates on content--goals and purposes. Chaucer's BD and the Old English "Solomon and Saturn" are comparable big debates. In BD the Dreamer is converted, not refuted, when he recognizes the "routhe" the Knight asserts. Assertion rather than logic effects Saturn's similar conversion in the OE poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.