'Neither of Idle Shewes nor of False Charmes Aghast': Transformations of Virgilian Ekphrasis in Chaucer and Spenser

Author / Editor
Watkins, John.

Title
'Neither of Idle Shewes nor of False Charmes Aghast': Transformations of Virgilian Ekphrasis in Chaucer and Spenser

Published
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993): 345-63.

Description
The transmission and reception of the "Aeneid" determined the possible meanings and appropriations for medieval and Renaissance writers, as HF makes clear in its skepticism.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.