The "Canticus Troili": Chaucer and Petrarch.
- Author / Editor
- Thomson, Patricia.
The "Canticus Troili": Chaucer and Petrarch.
- Published
- Comparative Literature 11 (1959): 313-28.
- Description
- Explores unanswered questions about Chaucer's knowledge of Petrarch and use of Petrarchan material in TC 1.400-420 and in ClT, focusing on close reading of Chaucer's "deviations" from Petrarch's Sonnet 132 in his translation of it in TC, with attention to emotional and structural alterations. Compares Chaucer's translation with that of Thomas Watson (a "minor Elizabethan Petrarchan") and explores the extent to which Chaucer's version is influenced by common conventions of courtly poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Clerk and His Tale