The Place of the Poet in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Simmons, J. L.
The Place of the Poet in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 27 (1966): 125-35.
- Description
- Argues that the "ability of the poet to secure a just and enduring fame" is an important and unifying theme in HF, focusing on the poem's concerns with poetic authority and patronage, and suggesting that its "missing conclusion" was to entail the narrator's return to Fame's palace with some piece of contemporary news.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame