Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality.

Introduction - Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, Gareth Griffith 1 Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde in Spenser’s Amoretti and The Faerie Queene: reading historically and intertextually - Judith H. Anderson 2 ‘Litle herd gromes piping in the wind’: The Shepheardes Calender, The House of Fame, and ‘La Compleynt’ - Helen Barr 3 Diverse pageants: normative arrays of sexuality - Helen Cooper 4 The source of poetry: Pernaso, Paradise, and Spenser’s Chaucerian craft - Claire Eager 5 Chaucer in Ireland: archaism, etymology, and the idea of development - William Rhodes 6 Wise wights in privy places: rhyme and stanza form in Spenser and Chaucer - Richard Danson Brown 7 Romancing Geoffrey: Chaucer and romance in the manuscript tradition - Gareth Griffith 8 Cultivating Chaucerian antiquity in The Shepheardes Calender - Megan L. Cook 9 Worthy friends: Speght’s Chaucer and Speght’s Spenser - Elisabeth Chaghafi 10 Chaucer’s ‘Beast Group’ and ‘Mother Hubberds Tale’ - Brendan O’Connell 11 Propagating authority: poetic tradition in The Parliament of Fowls and the Mutabilitie Cantos - Craig A. Berry 12 ‘New matter framed upon the old’: Chaucer, Spenser, and Luke Shepherd’s ‘New Poet’ - Harriet Archer Bibliography of books and essays on Chaucer and Spenser Index

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical approaches to the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. By reading one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages alongside one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, this collection addresses questions of poetic authority, influence, and the nature of intertextual relations in a more wide-ranging manner than ever before.The chapters respond to the concern that we have not fully understood what Chaucer meant to Spenser. The contributors analyse the values that Chaucer represented for Spenser and, more literally, the meanings that were made available to Spenser by Chaucer’s works via the forms in which Spenser encountered them. By addressing the ways in which previous critics have read the relationship between these writers, this book offers rereadings and new insights that are in dialogue with current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship: renewed interests in literary form, book history, garden history, and animal studies. With its dual focus on authors from periods often conceived as radically separate, the collection also intervenes in current debates about periodisation. This approach will engage researchers, academics, and students of Medieval and Early Modern culture.

'This very welcome collection offers twelve essays both by young scholars and by senior figures who have shaped the field of Spenser’s medieval roots, specifically here in Chaucer. Studies that interrogate the continuities and transformations (rather than outright rejections) between the English middle ages and early modern period have grown in recent years – pre-eminently in the work of Helen Cooper, one of this volume’s contributors ... What emerges from this collaborative study of Spenser in relation a ‘collaborative’ medieval writer is not a retrograde conservatism on Spenser’s part, but rather a demonstration of the dynamics of Spenserian poetry. As Archer writes in the collection’s final essay, with the ‘seductive binary of the old and the new, Spenser hoodwinks his readers into taking untenable stances on either side… [I]n fact his work breaks down even attempts to reconcile the two’.'The Spenser Review