Ovid and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Ovid and Chaucer
- Published
- William S. Anderson, ed. Ovid: The Classical Heritage (New York: Garland, 1995), pp. 143-65.
- Description
- Describes Ovid's response to Virgil, and gauges Ovid's influence on Chaucer, focusing on the latter's acquaintance with "Ars Amatoria," "Remedia Amoris," and "Amores," and on the "self-conscious, obtrusive narrator." Like Ovid, and unlike Virgil, Chaucer is more the "poeta" than the "vates"--"self-consciously trapped" by human limitations.
- Contributor
- Anderson, William S., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Ovid: The Classical Heritage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.