Declaiming Chaucer to a Field of Cows : Three Twentieth-Century Glimpses of the Poet

Author / Editor
Ruud, Jay.

Title
Declaiming Chaucer to a Field of Cows : Three Twentieth-Century Glimpses of the Poet

Published
Barbara Olive and David Sprunger, eds. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature (Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 2002), pp. 8-21.

Description
Explicates works by three twentieth-century poets who have made Chaucer the subject of their work: Benjamin Brawley's sonnet "Chaucer" (1922), e. e. cummings's untitled sonnet from his collection "Xaipé" (1950), and Ted Hughes's "Chaucer" (1998). These diverse poets present Chaucer as an emblem of "what poetry can and should be" (18).

Contributor
Olive, Barbara, ed.
Sprunger, David, ed.

Alternative Title
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.