The Chaucerian Narrator in Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar'

Author / Editor
Lasater, Alice E.

Title
The Chaucerian Narrator in Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar'

Published
Southern Quarterly12.3 (1974): 189-201.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's influence on Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calendar" is "deeper and far more extensive" than previously recognized. In particular, manipulations of the "hidden narrator" in Spenser are similar to similar techniques in CT and LGW, and Spenser's "concern with poetry and love" parallels the similar concern found among the dream-vision narrators of BD, PF, HF, and LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women