What Tales of a Wayside Tells Us About Longfellow and about Chaucer

Author / Editor
Calin, William.

Title
What Tales of a Wayside Tells Us About Longfellow and about Chaucer

Published
SiM 12 : 197-213, 2002.

Description
Assesses the influence of Chaucer and CT on Longfellow's poem, commenting on the poets' differences in sexual attitudes and concerns with mimetic realism and observing that Longfellow sought to become Father of American Poetry. Critical approaches to Chaucer highlight differences between the two poets and their relationship to postmodern aesthetics.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.