. The Sweet Briar Magazine. 236 THE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Cftaucer a0 artist and s^oraltet |0 numerous and so diametrically opposed arethe opinions that have been advanced, fromtime to time, with regard to Chaucer, andso fiercely has the controversy often raged,that it is with a feeling of hesitation, atleast—almost with a sense of dismay at ourown presumption—that we approach this subject. Criticalestimates of Chaucers influence, artistic and moral, havegone to the farthest extremes in both directions. By some hehas been condemned as rude, uncouth, barbarian; a savagefired with a slight spark
. The Sweet Briar Magazine. 236 THE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Cftaucer a0 artist and s^oraltet |0 numerous and so diametrically opposed arethe opinions that have been advanced, fromtime to time, with regard to Chaucer, andso fiercely has the controversy often raged,that it is with a feeling of hesitation, atleast—almost with a sense of dismay at ourown presumption—that we approach this subject. Criticalestimates of Chaucers influence, artistic and moral, havegone to the farthest extremes in both directions. By some hehas been condemned as rude, uncouth, barbarian; a savagefired with a slight spark of genius, working unconsciouslyand at random. Others, on the contrary, have seen in himthe source and inspiration of all subsequent English litera-ture, the conscious and deliberate artist, who concerns himselfwith carefully working out technical forms for the use offuture generations. Again he has been interpreted, bypartisans of the one side, as an ardent and impassionedreformer of all the vices of his time; by other
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