Choosing Poetic Fathers: The English Problem
- Author / Editor
- Cooper Helen.
Choosing Poetic Fathers: The English Problem
- Published
- Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (Tùˆbingen: Narr Verlag, 2011), pp. 29-50.
- Description
- Addresses the "literal paternity" of Chaucer as the "father of English poetry" for fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writers, including Shakespeare and Jonson. Discusses how Chaucer established himself as a "poet within the classical poetic line." Also, emphasizes how James Joyce's "Ulysses" deftly combines classical and medieval traditions, thereby connecting with Chaucer's "literary genes."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval and Early Modern Authorship.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion