The Pleasure of Influence: Dunbar's 'Golden Tare' and Dream Poetry

Author / Editor
DeVries, David N.

Title
The Pleasure of Influence: Dunbar's 'Golden Tare' and Dream Poetry

Published
Studies in Scottish Literature 27 (1992): 113-27.

Description
The major interpretations of Dunbar's poem fall into two groups: those arguing the poem is representational and those arguing it is reflexive. Comparing "Golden Targe" to Chaucer's dream poetry and to other dream poetry by Dunbar reveals that both schools of interpretation are right; it must be read both ways.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.