Petrarch and Chaucer on Fame.
- Author / Editor
- Sung,Wei-ko.
Petrarch and Chaucer on Fame.
- Published
- EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies 46.1 (2016): 1-44.
- Description
- Surveys "the idea literary fame" in classical and medieval traditions (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, Statius, and Dante); analyzes Petrarch's notion more extensively; and examines HF to show that though Chaucer, "like Petrarch, was intimately familiar with the fickleness and absurdity of worldly fame, he betrays a longing for a posthumous literary fame." Includes an abstract in Chinese.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations