Chaucer, Yeats, and the Living Voice
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Steve.
Chaucer, Yeats, and the Living Voice
- Published
- Yeats Annual 11 (1995): 45-60
- Description
- W.B. Yeats's early interest in Chaucer as a populist poet gave way to a "more occasional interest in the aristocratic and esoteric elements of Chaucer's works." For only a brief time, after receiving a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer in 1907, Yeats idealized Chaucer for what he perceived to be a fusion of art and life. Later, Yeats became sensitive to Chaucer's complexities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.