Classical Fable and English Poetry in the Fourteenth Century.
- Author / Editor
- Green, Richard Hamilton.
Classical Fable and English Poetry in the Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- Dorothy Bethurum, ed. Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1958-59 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), pp. 110-33.
- Description
- Summarizes theories and meanings of conventional mythographic images and allusions in medieval literature, derived from classical fables and allegorized in late-classical and medieval commentaries on such fables. Includes comments on the allusion to Virgil's and Dante's descents into hell in FrT (3.1513-20) and the resonances in KnT of Theseus as an exemplary figure of the noble life and the rational soul.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Friar and His Tale
Knight and His Tale