Yeats' Use of Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Blenner-Hassett, Roland
Yeats' Use of Chaucer.
- Published
- Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 72 (1954): 455-62.
- Description
- Suggests that Chaucer's astrological references in FranT and PF, particularly the deterministic "phases of the moon, " the Great Year, and the depiction of Scipio, are likely to have influenced W. B. Yeats' prose treatise, "A Vision" (1925; rev. 1937).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Parliament of Fowls
Franklin and His Tale