Cultivating Chaucerian Antiquity in "The Shepheardes Calender."

Author / Editor
Cook, Megan L.

Title
Cultivating Chaucerian Antiquity in "The Shepheardes Calender."

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. 150-67.

Description
Examines E. K.'s commentary on Chaucer in Spenser's "The Shepheardes Calender," arguing that by "associating him with a historically antecedent but culturally current poetic paradigm, E. K. represents Chaucer as a writer who proleptically embraces the literary values of his sixteenth-century admirers"---"a writer who participates meaningfully in both classical and native English poetic traditions." Focuses on Speght’s 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's "Workes."

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
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