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oapen-20.500.12657-621312024-03-27T14:14:46Z Chaucer and the Poets Wetherbee, Winthrop Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: poetry and poets thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval 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. 2023-03-29T15:51:01Z 2023-03-29T15:51:01Z 2016 book ONIX_20230329_9781501707100_116 9781501707100 9780801416842 9781501707230 9781501707094 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62131 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501707100.pdf 9781501707094.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801416842/chaucer-and-the-poets Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/w2hp-rp64 10.7298/w2hp-rp64 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501707100 9780801416842 9781501707230 9781501707094 Cornell University Press 256 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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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.
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