Allegories of Influence: Spenser, Chaucer, and Italian Romance.

Author / Editor
Ramachandran, Ayesha.

Title
Allegories of Influence: Spenser, Chaucer, and Italian Romance.

Published
Modern Language Notes 135 (2020): 1094-1107.

Description
Explores references and allusions to Chaucer (SqT and KnT), Ariosto, and Boiardo in Spenser's "densely self-reflective meta-critical mediation" on national and international poetic influences in Book IV of his "Faerie Queene." Focuses on the character of Cambina who, "perhaps not unlike Spenser himself," is "an original and a combiner."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
Squire and His Tale