Chaucer, Pope, and Fame.
- Author / Editor
- Cawley, A. C.
Chaucer, Pope, and Fame.
- Published
- Review of English Literature 3.2 (1962): 9-19.
- Description
- Compares HF and Alexander Pope's adaptation of it, "Temple of Fame," focusing on their uses and meanings of the word "fame." Surveys Chaucer's uses of "fame" in his corpus, and traces the rise and fall of its meanings in HF, from rumor to renown and back to rumor, with particular attention to the function of sound. In Pope, the word generally lacks negative connotation and the emphasis on sound loses its central importance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
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