Chaucer the Love Poet

Author / Editor
Eliason, Norman E.

Title
Chaucer the Love Poet

Published
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 9-26.

Description
Comments on the varieties of love in Chaucer's poetry (Christian, philosophic, courtly, and allegorical) and focuses on "ordinary" love in TC, where the personal experience of love is "not merely displayed" but probed with thoughtfulness, honesty, good sense, and sympathy.

Alternative Title
Chaucer the Love Poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde