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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.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Love in literature. --- Cressida (Fictitious character) --- Trojan War --- Troilus (Legendary character) in literature. --- Literature and the war. --- Knowledge --- Literature. --- Sources. --- Criseyde (Fictitious character) --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- classical literature --- Vergil --- Dante Alighieri --- Troilus and Criseyde --- Statius --- medieval literature --- (alternate spelling of "Vergil" Ovid --- Geoffrey Chaucer --- Roman de la rose --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 --- TROILUS AND CRISEYDE