What Tales of a Wayside Tells Us About Longfellow and about Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Calin, William.
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.