Pope and Chaucer: reconstructing The House of Fame in the reign of Queen Anne

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Abstract

This chapter argues that when Pope rendered anew Chaucer’s poem on the topos of fame, he aimed thereby also to suggest a translatio imperii. He sought to imply that in imitating Chaucer he was, at the same time, proving himself no mean descendant of the man whom Dryden had called ‘the father of English poetry’. Reconstruction of Chaucer’s The House of Fame as The Temple of Fame, that is to say,would emphasise his consciousness of his English poetic lineage, put forward his personal reflections on the nature of fame via engagement with Chaucer’s and advance his own progress towards fame.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne
Subtitle of host publicationreconsiderations of his early career
EditorsA. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
Place of PublicationNew York ; London
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Chapter6
Pages113-136
Number of pages24
ISBN (Electronic)9780367275556
ISBN (Print)0367275538, 0367641496, 9780367641498, 9780367275532
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

NameRoutledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
PublisherRoutledge

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