The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic.
- Author / Editor
- Durling, Robert M.
The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic.
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.
- Physical Description
- viii, 280 pp.
- Description
- Treats the "significance of the Narrator's changeability or instability" in Renaissance epics by Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser, with prefatory discussions of works by Horace and Ovid, Chaucer, and Petrarch. The chapter on Chaucer (pp. 44-66) focuses on the "rhetorical function" of the poet-narrator's "self-depreciation and apparent self-contradiction" in TC which "leads the reader" through a process of, first, "sympathetic identification" with the characters and, then, hierarchical transcendence of the limitations of their worldly perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde