同時代の二人の作家 : チョーサーとラングランド
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The comparison between Chaucer and Langland presents some of the fumdamental problems in the study of the English 14th century literature. Today Chaucer's biography is fairly well known to us but as for the poet of Piers Plowman his biographical evidence entirely lacks. Therefore the comparison must be made through the close examination of their works. Both Chaucer and Langland were the men of the culture of the time, and Langland's references in his works are exclusively to the Bible, while Chaucer is not interested in the Bible alone but in the various writers of all ages and countries whose works he knows. Piers Plowman was the literature of Allegory and Chaucer's works are to be classlfied in the genre of the Mirror of the life. The two poets have the same faith as a basis of their works. It is the faith in the "Only One Truth", but there is a distinct difference in their views of this real world. Langland's main concern was to encourage the people to repent their sins, to lead the true life and to construct the true shape of the human world as the realisatian of his Christian ideal. For him the reality of the world was what was not in accord to his conviction and it was so incompatible with his ideal that he vehemently attacked the world. As for Chaucer, he regards truth as the contradictory of the worn-out tradition and custom of the human world and in reality he recognises the destructive power of the unreasonable tradition. Though both poets are greatly interested in this world, Chaucer tends to approve the real life of the world and he is to be more closely bound to the modern age.
- 横浜国立大学の論文
- 1972-10-02