The Medieval & The Renaissance Colloquia: Paul Strohm, “THIS AUNTIENT POET”: Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus

Geoffrey Chaucer was at once a valued predecessor and an awkwardly over-present embarrassment to sixteenth-century English literati. Paul Strohm will consider the avid engagement of Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene, Gabriel Harvey, and Edmund Spenser with a forbear they did, and didn’t, want to claim.

Paul Strohm is author of the recent Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury. He is Garbedian Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Columbia University; former J.R.R. Tolkien Professor at the University of Oxford; and Distinguished University Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London.