A Commentary on ' The Canterbury Tales in The Faerie Queene ' by A. Kent Hieatt

Author / Editor
Holahan, Michael

Title
A Commentary on ' The Canterbury Tales in The Faerie Queene ' by A. Kent Hieatt

Published
Richardson, David A., ed. Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1976), pp. 230-36.

Description
Reads Spenser's address to Chaucer in "The Faerie Queene," Book 4, as a declaration of independence as well as an acknowledgement of influence and dependency, arguing that Spenser "locates himself beyond the Middle Ages by invoking medievalisms" (234).

Contributor
Richardson, David A., ed.

Alternative Title
Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion