James Smith and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney.

Title
James Smith and Chaucer

Published
Essays in Criticism 22 (1972): 221-25.

Description
Critiques James Smith's essay "Chaucer, Boethius, and Recent Trends in Criticism," while admiring his sensitivity to nuance in Chaucer's quotations of and allusions to Boethius in KnT and TC; argues that Smith mistakenly attributes the attitudes of characters to the author.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Knight and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde