Flying Through Space: Chaucer and Milton
- Author / Editor
- Howard, Donald R.
Flying Through Space: Chaucer and Milton
- Published
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, Jr., ed. Milton and the Line of Vision (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), pp. 3-23.
- Description
- Gauges Chaucer's influence on Milton, often mediated by Spenser, commenting on the use of interlace or "labyrinth design" in the works of the poets and their concern with the "picture of quotidian domestic life" in the marriage tales of CT and in Milton's "Paradise Lost." Comments on HF as the "greatest statement in the English language about the nature of poetic influence."
- Contributor
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, Jr., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Milton and the Line of Vision.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- House of Fame
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion