Apollo Exterminans : The God of Poetry in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale

Author / Editor
Kensak, Michael.

Title
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.