Chaucer's Mutability in Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
- Author / Editor
- Steinberg, Glenn.
Chaucer's Mutability in Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
- Published
- SEL 46.1 (2006): 27-42.
- Description
- Steinberg examines differences between depictions of Nature in Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos and in Chaucer's PF. For Spenser, disorder inheres in nature, while in Chaucer it results from human "pettiness and passion." Such differences remind us of changes between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, despite Spenser's insistence that he follows the work of his predecessor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Parliament of Fowls.