Chaucer and the Poets An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer's poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer's profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a...

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Main Author: Wetherbee, Winthrop (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2016
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Summary:In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer's poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer's profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history-it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters' limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (256 p.)
ISBN:w2hp-rp64
9781501707100
9780801416842
9781501707230
9781501707094
Access:Open Access