"New matter framed upon the old": Chaucer, Spenser and Luke Shepherd's "New Poet."

Author / Editor
Archer, Harriet.

Title
"New matter framed upon the old": Chaucer, Spenser and Luke Shepherd's "New Poet."

Published
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 224-42.

Description
Comments on the interdependence of innovation and imitation in Chaucer's poetry, and explores how Spenser's depictions of Chaucer and his poetry are part of the early modern concern with this dynamic, particularly evident in Luke Shepherd's reformist satire," Philogamus," as a form of “new” poetry.

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion