Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar and the Elizabethan Reception of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Steinberg, Glenn A.
Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar and the Elizabethan Reception of Chaucer
- Published
- English Literary Renaissance 35.1 (2005): 331ı51
- Description
- Spenser's adoption of Chaucerian humility should be understood in light of Elizabethan debates about Chaucer. Although Chaucer is universally listed as preeminent among English poets, his detractors find him lacking in moral or stylistic weight, while his defenders--especially those associated with Cambridge--praise his morality and poetic richness. Spenser's imitation of Chaucerian humility reflects positive assessments of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.