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By analyzing Chaucer’s major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet’s process of composition. He is thus able to relate individual poems to Chaucer’s view of himself as a writer, and to assess the internal evidence for a Chaucerian theory of fiction.

Professor Burlin contends that a logic underlies Chaucer’s aesthetic assumptions whose imaginative configuration appears both simple and inevitable in the context of his poetic development. The author first explores possible antecedents for the terms 鈥渆xperience鈥� and auctoritee, and shows that this common antinomy provides the basis for dividing the poems into three groups.

In the 鈥減oetic fictions,鈥� Chaucer speculates on the value of poetic activity, on the sources of its affect, and on its validity as a means of apprehension. The 鈥減hilosophic fictions鈥� concentrate on the epistemological aspect of literary activity. In a final group of poems, termed 鈥減sychological fictions,鈥� the poet explores the speaker’s unspoken motives, as well as his pronounced intentions, in telling a tale.

Originally published in 1977.

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