What Spenser Took from Chaucer: Worldly Vanity in the "The Ruines of Time" and "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Little, Katherine C.

Title
What Spenser Took from Chaucer: Worldly Vanity in the "The Ruines of Time" and "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
ELH 83.2 (2016): 431-55.

Description
Analyzes Edmund Spenser's "The Ruines of Time" as a response to TC, arguing that Spenser emulates aspects of TC as a mediation of "the humanist imitation of classical texts" and concludes that the Renaissance "rediscovery of classical texts was inextricably intertwined with Chaucer's legacy."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion