Flying Through Space: Chaucer and Milton

Author / Editor
Howard, Donald R.

Title
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