In this sensitive reading of Chaucerâs Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucerâs poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucerâs 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 historyâit 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 charactersâ 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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