Chaucer and the Medieval Latin Poets. Part A.1: Cosmological Poetry; Part A.2: Trojan Poetry and Rhetoric
- Author / Editor
- Dronke, Peter.
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