Chaucer and His Narrators: The Poet's Place in His Poems

Author / Editor
Donner, Morton.

Title
Chaucer and His Narrators: The Poet's Place in His Poems

Published
Western Humanities Review 27 (1973): 189-95.

Description
Argues that Chaucer adapts his first-person narrators throughout his career in order to explore aspects of the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity. Chaucer achieves a greatest sense of objectivity when his subjective narrator is most apparent. Considers BD, HF, PF, TC, and CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General