The Source of Poetry: Pernaso, Paradise and Spenser's Chaucerian Craft.
- Author / Editor
- Eager, Claire J. C.
The Source of Poetry: Pernaso, Paradise and Spenser's Chaucerian Craft.
- 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. 75-97.
- Description
- Investigates resonances between the garden settings in FranT and in the June eclogue of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," exploring the "spatialised poetics" of Dorigen's and Colin's shared inability to enjoy the pleasures of a classical/Christian "locus amoenus" as symbols of Chaucer's and Spenser's anxieties about "literary failure, inspiration and achievement." Assesses Chaucer's clerk-magician as the "mooste fre" character in FranT.
- Alternative Title
- Rereading Chaucer and Spenser
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion