Chaucer the Love Poet: A Study in Historical Criticism.
- Author / Editor
- Treilhard, John B.
Chaucer the Love Poet: A Study in Historical Criticism.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. McMaster University, 1978. Fully accessible via https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/items/4962989b-1a92-4c64-b55a-fc8485c90890 (accessed April 14, 2026).
- Physical Description
- viii, 424 pp.
- Description
- Separates medieval ideas of love (primarily Ovidian and Augustianian) from Romantic and post-Romantic ideas, and argues that Chaucer "was unquestionably a man of his time--an orthodox member of the Church and a firm follower of the teachings of St. Augustine in matters of art as in ethics." In matters of love (especially in PF, TC, and KnT), he " consistently subscribes to Augustinian doctrines of nature, grace, and sexual morality."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General