Allusion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotation, 1687-1798.
- Author / Editor
- Mason, Tom.
Allusion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotation, 1687-1798.
- Published
- In Michael Edson, ed. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2017), pp. 129–50.
- Description
- Describes a kind of annotation used by eighteenth-century editors that links an edited poet to literary tradition by reference to or quotation from other poets. Focuses on the practice in Speght's 1687 edition of Chaucer; Dryden's Fables (1700); and the editions of John Urry (1721), Thomas Morrell (1737), and Thomas Tyrwhitt (1775), concluding that through this device Chaucer, who was becoming antiquated, gained status and familiarity through association with the likes of Homer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Gay, and Gray.
- Contributor
- Edson, Michael, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
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