Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

by Winthrop Wetherbee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150170723X
• ISBN13: 9781501707230
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher