Chaucer and the Medieval Latin Poets. Part A.1: Cosmological Poetry; Part A.2: Trojan Poetry and Rhetoric

Author / Editor
Dronke, Peter.

Title
Chaucer and the Medieval Latin Poets. Part A.1: Cosmological Poetry; Part A.2: Trojan Poetry and Rhetoric

Published
Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 154-72.

Description
Part 1 traces the influences of Bernard Silvestris and Alan of Lille on Chaucer's works, focusing on themes of fatalism (in MLT), cosmic ascent (in HF) and hierarchy and nature (in PF). Regards Alan's influence as "profound," especially in PF, and also mentions the influence of "Theodulus." Part 2 summarizes the influence of Simon Chèvre d'Or (in HF), Joseph of Exeter's "Frigii Daretis Ylias" (in TC, with a reading of the placement and significance of the three character portraits in Book 5), and Geoffrey of Vinsauf (in TC, especially poetic technique as architecture).

Alternative Title
Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Man of Law and His Tale