Reading Chaucer in New College, Oxford, in the 1630s: The Commendatory Verses to Francis Kynaston's "morum Troili et Creseidae."
- Author / Editor
- Knox, Philip, Mark Griffith, and William Poole.
Reading Chaucer in New College, Oxford, in the 1630s: The Commendatory Verses to Francis Kynaston's "morum Troili et Creseidae."
- Published
- Medium Aevum 85.1 (2016): 33-58.
- Description
- Proposes that prefatory verses published in Kynaston's Latin translation of TC demonstrate a high degree of academic interest in Chaucer in seventeenth-century Oxford. Several verses praise Kynaston by criticizing Chaucer's "rudeness," but others echo or imitate Chaucer's texts, including PF. One verse echoes Chaucer's ribaldry though complex puns. Poet Francis James, apparently influenced by Spenser, wrote at least two poems that praise Kynaston and imitate Chaucer's Middle English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
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