The Gloomy Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Bloomfield, Morton W.
The Gloomy Chaucer
- Published
- Harry Levin, ed. Veins of Humor. Harvard English Series, no. 3 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), pp. 57-68.
- Series
- Harvard English Series, no. 03.
- Description
- Describes Chaucer's comic perspective as one that "takes all things lightly because fundamentally they are too serious . . . a way of faring the universe bravely." Exemplifies the poet's narrative device of offering rhetorical "defence of the author's position against a querulous objector," and argues that the device indicates Chaucer's ironic, humane, and warm acceptance of human limitations.
- Contributor
- Levin, Harry, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Veins of Humor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism