Chaucer’s Courtly Poetry.

Author / Editor
Lawton, David.

Title
Chaucer’s Courtly Poetry.

Published
Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 409-24.

Description
Highlights the enduring role of court poet for Chaucer, including his debts to "The Romance of the Rose" and the complicity of the narrator in TC. Discusses the creation of Alcestis in LGW.

Alternative Title
Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Background and General Criticism