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Chaucer and the poets

Name: Chaucer and the poets
Author: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780801416842

by Winthrop Wetherbee

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Overview

In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's masterpiece, 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 out of which it comes.