Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau : Romantic Souls, Realist Lives

Author / Editor
Haines, Simon.

Title
Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau : Romantic Souls, Realist Lives

Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Physical Description
xiii, 214 pp.

Description
Haines surveys interactions between realist and romantic thought in Western literary and philosophical discourse, commenting on a range of writers but focusing on Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare, and Descartes. In "Chaucer: The Wife and the Clerk" (pp. 84-89), he discusses Chaucer's GP and the Wife of Bath as manifestations of "appetitiveness" and the poet's essential realism, cast into relief by the Clerk.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.