Chaucer's Poetic Vision.
- Author / Editor
- Courtney, Neil.
Chaucer's Poetic Vision.
- Published
- Critical Review 8 (1965): 129-40.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's depiction in CT of human vitality "in an unending variety of circumstances," framed by the "revelatory power of symbolism" latent in his details and styles. Separates Chaucer's techniques from Dante's allegory and from modern realism, explicating details and devices of the opening of GP, along with the descriptions of the Knight, Parson, Miller, ad Pardoner.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales