Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau : Romantic Souls, Realist Lives
- Author / Editor
- Haines, Simon.
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.