What Spenser Took from Chaucer: Worldly Vanity in the "The Ruines of Time" and "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Little, Katherine C.
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