임성균,  “그대의 발자취”   - 『선녀여왕』 제 4권과 초서 page(s): 165-186  (22 pages)
   (Sung-kyun Yim,  “The footing of thy feete”: Chaucer in Book 4 of The Faerie Queene)


Abstract

In Canto 2, Book 4 of The Faerie Queene, praising Geoffrey Chaucer as a “enowmed Poet”and “ell of English undefyled,”Edmund Spenser declares that he would complete Chaucer’ The Squire’’s Tale by following “he footing of [Chaucer’] feete.”It seems, however, that Spenser neither completes Chaucer’ unfinished work, nor does the part in which he deals with Cambel and Canacee occupy the center of Book 4. As a matter of fact, rather complicated stories of and between Britomart, Amoret, Scudamoure, Artegall, and Florimell take up the major part of the work, which is supposed to deal with a friendship between Cambel and Telamond. Furthermore, unlike the preceding books, Book 4 does not present a hero who ultimately achieves a given task at the end of the work. Redcross, Guyon, and Britomart, the heroes of the three preceding books, all defeat the villains eventually, so as to accomplish their missions. Book 4, however, ends with the reunion of Florimell and Marinell occasioned by the marriage of personified rivers. Why, then, the poet draws Chaucer in his work and calls it “he Legend of Cambel and Telamond, or Friendship” Does friendship indeed function as a central motif of the work? Who is the hero of the work, or is there any? What does the story of Cambel and Telamond have to do with other episodes? While examining Chaucer’ The Squire’”s Tale and Book 4 of The Faerie Queene together, this paper is to provide certain answers to these questions and consequently to understand Spenser’ idea of true friendship manifested in Book 4 of The Faerie Queene. 
  
 저자 키워드  Key words
  
 에드먼드 스펜서, 선녀여왕 제 4권, 제프리 초서, 수습기사의 이야기 우정, 캠벨, 캠비나, 텔라몬드, 트리아몬드, 브리토마트, Edmund Spenser, Book 4 of The Faerie Queene, Geoffrrey Chaucer, The Squire’s Tale, friendship, Cambel, Telamond, Britomart