Poetic Fame
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Poetic Fame
- Published
- Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 361-78.
- Description
- Cooper argues that, despite his own skepticism about fame, Chaucer was the "model of fame" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. Comments on Chaucer's appeal to humanists, to Protestants, and to Catholics and on Chaucer's role as "father" of English poetry.
- Alternative Title
- Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.