Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love
- Author / Editor
- Calabrese, Michael A.
Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love
- Published
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
- Physical Description
- x, 170 pp.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's uses of Ovid, assessing the former's perception of the ancient poet, tracing Ovidian reception in the Middle Ages, and exploring Chaucer's reflection of Ovid's stuggles with life and art.
- TC and WBPT display Chaucer's "evolving treatment" of the Ovidian art of love--from the "skepticism" shown by Pandarus and Criseyde to the "celebration" shown by the Wife. Chapter 5 considers the relation between Chaucer's "Ovidianism" and his conception of himself as a poet, especially as reflected in ParsT and Ret. Unlike the permanently exiled Ovid, Chaucer found a spiritual escape from gaming.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.