Chaucer's Use of Neoplatonic Traditions

Author / Editor
Takada, Yasunari.

Title
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.