Recent Interpretations of Chaucer's "House of Fame" and a New Suggestion.

Description: Argues that "the role of the artist as purveyor of Fame" is the fundamental unifying theme of HF and suggests that Chaucer may have intended to resolve tensions between Dantean and Boethian views of the poet (as teacher and misleader, respectively) at the completion of the poem, perhaps having the man of great authority offer perspective on "the responsibility of a poet in society."