Chaucer and the Poets

"There is no doubt that this book is one of the most important works, not only on Troilus, but on Chaucer's poetry as a whole, to have appeared in recent years. Without putting forward elaborate theoretical propositions, without an excessive use of secondary material, without unnecessary jargon, Winthrop Wetherbee has written something with which all Chaucerians (and many medievalists) will have to reckon in the future."-Speculum "This book takes a distinguished place in the controversy over Chaucer's reading of the classics and, more generally, over the nature of classical influence in later medieval poetry. Wetherbee argues convincingly that Chaucer knows several of the Latin classics-especially Vergil, Ovid, and Statius-directly, thoroughly, and in sufficient detail to make complicated, subtle allusions to their poetry."-Modern Language Quarterly