Chaucer and the Poets
An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde
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Wetherbee, Winthrop
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EnglishAbstract
<p>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.<p>
Keywords
classical literature; Vergil; Dante Alighieri; Troilus and Criseyde; Statius; medieval literature; (alternate spelling of "Vergil" Ovid; Geoffrey Chaucer; Roman de la roseISBN
9781501707230Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
cornellpress.cornell.eduPublication date and place
1984Classification
The Arts