Chaucer as the "Father of English Poetry."
- Author / Editor
- Kern-Stähler, Annette.
Chaucer as the "Father of English Poetry."
- Published
- In Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of British Poetry: Genre--Developments--Interpretations (Trier: WVT, 2015), pp. 29–40.
- Description
- Introduces Chaucer as a poet and explores reasons for his canonical status, describing his use of English, his lexicon, and his verse forms. Focuses on CT as "arguably one of the most innovative narrative poems in English," commenting on the opening of GP, the tale-tellers, the issue of "decorum" in the contrasts between KnT and MilT, gender in WBPT, and reasons why Chaucer appeals so readily to postmodern readers.
- Contributor
- Baumbach, Sibylle, ed.
Neumann, Birgit, ed.
Nünning, Ansgar, ed.
- Alternative Title
- A History of British Poetry: Genre--Developments--Interpretations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale