Idle and Extravagant Stories in Verse: 400 Years of Narrative Poetry from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth
- Author / Editor
- Simons, Christopher E. J.
Idle and Extravagant Stories in Verse: 400 Years of Narrative Poetry from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth
- Published
- Humanities: Christianity and Culture (International Christian University) 41 (2013): 31-70.
- Description
- Clarifies what kind of poems William Wordsworth criticized as "idle and extravagant stories in verse" and examines four English narrative poems before Wordsworth, including WBT. All four turn out to be more or less "idle and extravagant" by Wordsworth's standards.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale