'Wrastling for This World': Wyatt and the Tudor Canonization of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Watkins, John.

Title
'Wrastling for This World': Wyatt and the Tudor Canonization of Chaucer

Published
Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 21-39.

Description
Examines allusions to Chaucer's poetry in works by Thomas Wyatt. Thynne's edition of Chaucer shows how he was appropriated for the crown's political agenda, while the Devonshire manuscript reflects subversive appropriation. Wyatt capitalizes on this fragmentation of Chaucer's "cultural authority" to express his own poetic and political struggles.

Alternative Title
Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.