Loving in Verse: Poetic Influence as Erotic
- Author / Editor
- Guy-Bray, Stephen.
Loving in Verse: Poetic Influence as Erotic
- Published
- Buffalo, N.Y.; and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 132 pp.
- Description
- Argues that poetic influence can be regarded as an erotic or romantic relationship between male couples, focusing on literature of Dante, Spenser, and Hart Crane and questioning notions of literary influence promulgated by T. S. Eliot and Harold Bloom. Chapter 2, "Chaucer and Spenser and Other Male Couples" (pp. 28-60) considers how Book 4 of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" dramatizes "the process by which heteroeroticism drives out homoeroticism." Spenser changes his sources--Chaucer's SqT and the anonymous "Amys and Amylion"--to present a narrative in which "attachments between men are ultimately superseded by marital and familial attachments . . . just as Spenser uses the Knight's Tale to recast the Squire's Tale."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Squire and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale