Complaint and the Poetic Career: Catullus, Virgil, Chaucer, Spenser

Author / Editor
Rasmussen, Mark David.

Title
Complaint and the Poetic Career: Catullus, Virgil, Chaucer, Spenser

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1993): 171A.

Description
Poets have used the complaint to express their own poetic and social situations. In BD, the nonaristocratic poet must work within a courtly mode; in TC, he expresses the "need for a sympathetic audience."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess.
Troilus and Criseyde.