Chaucer, Gower, and Fifteenth-Century Poetry in English.
- Author / Editor
- Attridge, Derek.
Chaucer, Gower, and Fifteenth-Century Poetry in English.
- Published
- The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listener to Shakespeare's Readers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 2285-3.
- Description
- Examines evidence for the modes of performance and reception of late medieval English poetry, focusing on Chaucer’s dream visions, TC, and CT, but also commenting on works by John Gower, other English poets, and continental writers. Considers practices of orality, aurality, memorization, and literacy, along with public and private performance, dramatized in the poems and manifest in their narrators’ comments. Also assesses evidence found in manuscripts: glossing, bracketing, etc.
- Alternative Title
- The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listener to Shakespeare's Readers
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Manuscripts and Textual Studies