Chaucer and the Idea of a Poet
- Author / Editor
- Kane, George.
Chaucer and the Idea of a Poet
- Published
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977), pp. 35-49.
- Description
- Postulates a crucial division in Chaucer's poetic career, separated by a "courteous but thoughtful and decisive rejection of 'fine amour'," reflected in PF, TC, and LGWP. Acknowledges the impact of French and Italian models on Chaucer's changing idea of himself as a poet, suggests that he may have been affected by Langland's "Piers Plowman" and its social concerns, and cautiously posits that Machaut's "Le Voir Dit" may have influenced Chaucer's rejection of his earlier role as a promulgator of courtly conventions.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations