Chaucer's Influence and Reception

Author / Editor
Trigg, Stephanie.

Title
Chaucer's Influence and Reception

Published
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 297-323.

Description
Trigg considers recurrent issues in the reception of Chaucer: responses to his self-shaped "poetic signature," admiration for his rhetoric and sentiment, and mourning for the loss of his genius by poets who seek to emulate him. Surveys rewritings and adaptations of TC and CT and raises questions about the reciprocity of canon formation and the institutions that produce such canons.

Alternative Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.