The Minstrel in the Theatre: Arnold, Chaucer, and Yeats's New Spiritual Democracy
- Author / Editor
- Schuchard, Ronald.
The Minstrel in the Theatre: Arnold, Chaucer, and Yeats's New Spiritual Democracy
- Published
- Yeats Annual 2 (1983): 3-24.
- Description
- Traces the development of Yeats's concern with "writing for a listening audience," and identifies his reading of Chaucer in 1905 as crucial to this process. As several of his letters and lectures attest, Yeats for a time regarded Chaucer as the "artistic paragon of his spiritual democracy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion