William Dunbar's Poetics: A Reconsideration of the Chaucerian in a Scottish Maker

Author / Editor
Tomko, Andrew Stephan.

Title
William Dunbar's Poetics: A Reconsideration of the Chaucerian in a Scottish Maker

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3950A.

Description
Though recent studies of Dunbar emphasize the traditional, the Scottish, and the Renaissance elements of his poetry, his aureate verse derives from familiarity with the rhetoric of Dante and Boccaccio, and his prosody from Chaucer. He is closer to Chaucer than to poets of the early sixteenth century.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.