Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer

by Edited by Ruth Morse , Barry Windeatt

• ISBN13: 9780521031493
• ISBN10: 0521031494
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian' authors and to a body of comment about his writings. This book is the first to describe Chaucer's literary influence across a wide range of writers and periods. It takes as its theme the variety of responses to Chaucer or 'Chaucer Traditions', and addresses topics of special interest arising from the effects Chaucer's work had on subsequent writers in the three centuries leading up to Dryden. Each essay focuses on a certain writer or literary tradition discussing these in the context of Chaucer's work and its influence. The result is an important collection of essays which will be of interest to all teachers and students of Chaucer, as well as to scholars of poetry in later periods.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface Note on the text

Chaucer traditions

Gower - Chaucer's heir

Chaucer and Lydgate

Hoccleve and Chaucer

Chaucer and fifteenth-century romance: Partonope of

Some Chaucerian themes in Scottish writers

The planetary gods in Chaucer

Gavin Douglas: 'Off Eloquence the flowand balmy strand'

Skelton's Garlande of Laurell and the Chaucerian tradition

Chaucer in metre and early Tudor songs

Aspects of the Chaucerian apocrypha: animadversions on

The shape-shiftings of the Wife of Bath, 1395-1670

The genius to improve an invention: transformations of the

From the Clerk's Tale to The Winter's

The Virtuoso's Troilus

Rewriting romance: Chaucer's and Dryden's Wife of Bath's

Chaucer's religion and the Chaucer religion

A list of the published writings of Derek Brewer

Index

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