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Chaucer and the Poets: an Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

By Winthrop , Weatherbee

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781501707094, 9781501707100, 1501707108, 9781501707230, 150170723X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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736 kB (753507 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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.

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