The Poetry of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Gardner, John Champlin.
The Poetry of Chaucer
- Published
- Carbondale: Southern Ililinois University Press, 1977.
- Physical Description
- 408 pp.
- Description
- BD is an apprentice work whose chief interest is in rhetoric and ornamentation. PF, built on neo-platonic musical principles, shows growth in command of structure. The short poems reveal Chaucer's interest in prosodic experiment. TC is a great love story which explores the tragic contrast between the neo-platonic ideas of unity (tradition, authority) and diversity (experience, experiment, realism).
- HF treats the same theme of authority and experience. LGW is a serio-comic treatment of neo-platonic love doctrine. CT combines the attitudes of the modern realist with those of the medieval neo-platonist. It is a final rendition of the theme of unity and diversity, the one and the many.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.