Poetic Fame

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
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.