Narrative Reflections: Re-envisaging the Poet in 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'The Faerie Queene'

Author / Editor
Anderson, Judith H.

Title
Narrative Reflections: Re-envisaging the Poet in 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'The Faerie Queene'

Published
Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 87-105.

Description
Chaucer, especially GP, inspired Spenser's poetic identiy in "The Faerie Queene." Through allegory, Spenser manifests Chaucer's ironic doubleness, and he de-centers his dominant narration through various forms of "impersonations," emulating Chaucer's blurring of "character and characterizer."

Alternative Title
Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.