Idolatrous Idylls: Protestant Iconoclasm, Spenser's 'Daphnaida,' and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Steinberg, Glenn.

Title
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.