Chaucer as a European Writer
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Chaucer as a European Writer
- Published
- Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 55-86.
- Description
- Simpson explores Chaucer's absorption of and reactions to Continental influences (Latin, French, and Italian), emphasizing the recurrent influence of Ovid as a source and a model. BD is a poem of deference to Gaunt and to French tradition; HF and PF are "manifesto" poems in response to Dante.
- TC and KnT are darker versions of Boccaccio, more attentive than Boccaccio to suffering. LGW is a work of pretended compliment to Cupid (and Richard II?); and in CT Chaucer makes himself a "modern Ovid" by questioning literary and political structures.
- Alternative Title
- The Yale Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Canterbury Tales--General.