Idolatrous Idylls: Protestant Iconoclasm, Spenser's 'Daphnaida,' and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Steinberg, Glenn.
Idolatrous Idylls: Protestant Iconoclasm, Spenser's 'Daphnaida,' and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 91-109.
- Description
- Reads Spenser's "Daphnaida" as a "refiguration and response" to BD, modified by Spenser's Protestant outlook. Compares and contrasts the two poems, considering tone, idiom, and faith in the ability of art to console.
- Alternative Title
- Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.