TY - BOOK AU - Weatherbee,Winthrop TI - Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde SN - 1501707108 AV - PR1896 U1 - 821 19 PY - 1984/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, KW - Trojan War KW - fast KW - Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) KW - Troilus (Legendary character) in literature KW - Literature and the war KW - Cressida (Fictitious character) KW - Love in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Medieval KW - bisacsh KW - Art KW - Troylus and Cryseyde (Chaucer) KW - gtt KW - AMOR EN LITERATURA KW - renib KW - Poetry in English KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey KW - Troilus and Criseyde - Critical studies KW - Electronic books KW - Literature KW - Sources KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on Texts --; Introduction --; 1. The Narr�ator, 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 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 - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1g69x5q ER -