Chaucer and the Latin Classics
- Author / Editor
- Harbert, Bruce.
Chaucer and the Latin Classics
- Published
- Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 137-53.
- Description
- Clarifies various difficulties in determining "how much classical Latin literature" Chaucer knew and details his relative familiarity with works by Cicero, Livy, Cato, Lucan, Statius, Claudian, Virgil, and Ovid. Chaucer was little influenced by moralized versions, but his occasional errors, samples of his "weak poetry," and his uses of translational aids indicate that he was a middling Latinist. Comments on many works and includes sustained consideration of Chaucer's adaptations of Ovid in the Dido and Aeneas story of LGW.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies