Propagating Authority: Poetic Tradition in "The Parliament of Fowls" and the Mutabilitie Cantos.

Author / Editor
Berry, Craig A.

Title
Propagating Authority: Poetic Tradition in "The Parliament of Fowls" and the Mutabilitie Cantos.

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. 212-23.

Description
Explores the thematic concern with poetic tradition in the narrator-Africanus exchange of PF and in Spenser's "Mutabilitie Cantos," arguing that Chaucer and Spenser share an "interest in rhetorically linking the earth-bound poet with a community of readers who also write, a community depicted as both historically bound and transcendent."

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion