Medieval Anticipations of Dryden's Stylistic Revolution 'The Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hatton, Thomas J.
Medieval Anticipations of Dryden's Stylistic Revolution 'The Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Language and Style 7 (1974): 261-70.
- Description
- Generalizes that John Dryden's compositional technique (in which abstractions precede concrete details) has precedent in the medieval "rhetorical poetic." Then shows how the details of KnT are "the vehicle for the presentation of certain Boethian concepts of the nature of Fortune and Providence," and thereby evidence that Dryden's technique is part of a "time-honored tradition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Style and Versification