TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weatherbee,Winthrop
TI  - Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde 
SN  - 9781501707100
U1  - 821.1 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ithaca, N.Y. : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on Texts --; Introduction --; 1. The Narrátor, Troilus, and the Poetic Agenda --; 2. Love Psychology: The Troilus and the Roman de la Rose --; 3. History versus the Individual: Vergil and Ovid in the Troilus --; 4. Thebes and Troy: Statius and Dante's Statius --; 5. Dante and the Troilus --; 6. Character and Action: Criseyde and the Narrator --; 7. Troilus Alone --; 8. The Ending of the Troilus --; Index; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501707100
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