The Existential Mysteries as Treated in Certain Passages of Our Older Poets
- Author / Editor
- Pope, John C.
The Existential Mysteries as Treated in Certain Passages of Our Older Poets
- Published
- Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 345-62.
- Description
- Explicates tensions within several poetic evocations of mutability in English poetry: the Old English "Wanderer," "Beowulf," the end of Chaucer's TC (5.1835-48), and Spenser's Mutability Cantos. Chaucer and Spenser both use "equivocation" to express "seriously divergent views of the world, its value, and its mysteries . . . and [point] to an inexpressible synthesis."
- Alternative Title
- Acts of Interpretation
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde