Second Thoughts on C. S. Lewis on Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- Sharrock, Roger.
Second Thoughts on C. S. Lewis on Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 8 (1958): 123-37.
- Description
- Responds to criticism of TC, especially that of C. S. Lewis on courtly love, and examines the poem's emphases on human vulnerability and limitations, reinforced by recurrent colloquialisms, juxtapositions of the sublime and the risible, and concern with the "contingent, fortuitous character of ordinary life." Attends to the lovers' struggles in dealing with worldly contingencies, supplanted in the final stanzas with spiritual distancing from the material world.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Toilus and Criseyde