Deschamp's 'Ballade to Chaucer' Again, or, The Dangers of Intertextual Medieval Comparatism

Author / Editor
Calin, William.

Title
Deschamp's 'Ballade to Chaucer' Again, or, The Dangers of Intertextual Medieval Comparatism

Published
Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, ed. Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp.73-83.

Description
Contrary to earlier critical opinion, the "Ballade to Chaucer" demonstrates very little about Chaucer's renown outside court circles in southern England; it cannot necessarily be read as a sincere expression of Deschamp's opinion of Chaucer the poet.

Alternative Title
Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.