The Epic Tree Catalogue from Chaucer to Spenser.

Published: Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 155-71.

Description: Focuses on the "Chaucerian tree catalogue[s]" in Philip Sidney's "Old Arcadia" and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," tracing the device as a "subtype of epic catalogue" in classical tradition and in KnT and PF, exploring its narrative, "metareferential," and "metapoetic" functions as an act of "self-insertion into the poetic tradition." Tabulates the trees, their epithets, and their significations shared by the three English poets.

Alternative Title: Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification
Knight and His Tale
Parliament of Fowls