The Poetic Subject from Chaucer to Spenser
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
The Poetic Subject from Chaucer to Spenser
- Published
- David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995), pp. 13-37.
- Description
- In the development of the literary subjective "I," Chaucer's work--especially KnT with its images of prison and mirrors that become images for the exploration of subjectivity--greatly influenced subsequent writers from Hoccleve to Spenser.
- Alternative Title
- Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.