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Loading... Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseydeby Winthrop Wetherbee
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.1Literature English English poetry 1066-1400 Early English period, medieval periodLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |