Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson.
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Herbert G.
Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson.
- Published
- London: University of London, Athlone, 1957.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 495 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the influence of Boccaccio's Italian and Latin works on English writers and literary tradition through the nineteenth century, with extensive analyses of Chaucer's uses of the "Teseida" in KnT, "Filostrato" in TC, and "Decameron" in ClT. Asserts that there is "no convincing internal evidence" for influence of the "Decameron" on CT more generally.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale