Chaucer and the Satirical Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Sarno, Ronald A.
Chaucer and the Satirical Tradition.
- Published
- .Classical Folia 21 (1967): 41-61.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's "main contribution to English satire" is the "reunification" of "Horace's gentleness, Juvenal's verve, and St. Jerome's moral vision," augmented by his "facile use of the double-entendre" and "his own special combination of clever wit and humane understanding." Surveys classical satire, the complaint tradition, and satire in Gower and Langland.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification