Tradition and Moral Realism: Chaucer's Conception of the Poet.
- Author / Editor
- Renoir, Alain.
Tradition and Moral Realism: Chaucer's Conception of the Poet.
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 35 (1963): 199-210.
- Description
- Explores Ret, the ending of TC, the claims of accurate reporting in GP 1.730-43, and Chaucer's comments on poetry and the rhetorical arts in HF, LGW, and PF, arguing that Chaucer's "seems to have conceived of the poet" as a "moral realist" who writes "within the framework of his craft and his cultural tradition," a "highly serious" view of poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Retraction