Poetry and Power in Ovid's "Tristia" and Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women."
- Author / Editor
- Chaudhuri, Aparna.
Poetry and Power in Ovid's "Tristia" and Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- ELH 87, no. 4 (2020): 881-909.
- Description
- Studies Ovid's "Tristia" and LGW and argues that "Ovid's literary autobiography" revealed in the "Tristia" is "assimilated and elaborated" by Chaucer in LGWP. This connection not only allows Chaucer "to convey . . . a sense of his own Ricardian, political reality" but recognizes that poetry "is always written within networks of power, simultaneously enabling and restraining, and therefore has a significant stake in the varieties of subjection that its cultural moment makes possible."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations