Apollo Exterminans : The God of Poetry in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kensak, Michael.
Apollo Exterminans : The God of Poetry in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale
- Published
- Studies in Philology 98: 143-57, 2001.
- Description
- Parallels between Chaucer's treatment of Phebus [Apollo] and the treatments in Dante's "Paradiso" and Alain de Lille suggest that ManT reflects the literary tradition of Apollonian ineptitude and prepares the way for the Parson's Christian reinvocation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.