Chaucer's Use of Neoplatonic Traditions
- Author / Editor
- Takada, Yasunari.
Chaucer's Use of Neoplatonic Traditions
- Published
- Anna Baldwin and Sarah Hutton, eds. Platonism and the English Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 45-51.
- Description
- Chaucer's treatment of Neoplatonic concerns with love, ascent to heaven, and nature is characterized "by obliqueness, a sense of humour and even irony."
- Takada assesses love and ascent in TC and nature in PF.
- Contributor
- Baldwin, Anna,
- Hutton, Sarah,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Platonism and the English Imagination.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Parliament of Fowls.