The Source of Poetry: Pernaso, Paradise and Spenser's Chaucerian Craft.

Author / Editor
Eager, Claire J. C.

Title
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