Chaucer and the Tragic Vision of Life

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
Chaucer and the Tragic Vision of Life

Published
PoeticaT 55 : 39-53, 2001.

Description
Assesses Chaucer's response to ancient poetry, especially as Chaucer (like Dante) fuses the ancient with more recent models while pursuing the ancient concern with the tragic sorrows of love. Wetherbee comments on aspects of BD and HF, examines the invocation of Tisiphone in TC, and discusses the end of KnT. In LGWP, as elsewhere, Chaucer is a love poet, subject to ancient tragedy.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women
Knight and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde