Figural Imitation in English Renaissance Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- LaGuardia, Eric.
Figural Imitation in English Renaissance Poetry.
- Published
- François Jost, ed. Actes du IVe Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Fribourg 1964 (The Hague: Mouton, 1966), II: 844-54.
- Description
- Distinguishes between medieval and Renaissance versions of poetic "figural imitation." In the former, identified by Erich Auerbach, the "poetic image participates in two modes of reality at the same time: historical and absolute": in the latter, it participates in the world of nature and an ideal. Draws contrasting examples from Dante and from English Renaissance writers, with a brief commentary on GP, the Wife of Bath, and the pilgrimage as examples of the transition from medieval to Renaissance, particularly in relations between the "authority of experience and the authority of tradition."
- Contributor
- Jost, François, ed
- Alternative Title
- Actes du IVe Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Fribourg 1964.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath and Her Tale