"Tis More Ancient Than Chaucer Himself": Keats and Romantic Polyphony.

Author / Editor
Bertonèche, Caroline. Trans. Jonathan Fruoco.

Title
"Tis More Ancient Than Chaucer Himself": Keats and Romantic Polyphony.

Published
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 206-16.

Description
Argues that the polyphonies of John Keats's poetry (as identified by Helen Vendler) are attributable to his engagements with Chaucer's works and Chaucerian apocrypha, reflecting a particular kind of "Englishness," underpinned by travel and encounters with French and Italian literatures.

Contributor
Fruoco, Jonathan, trans.

Alternative Title
Polyphony and the Modern

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucerian Apocrypha