POETS: Dante and Chaucer

Dante and Chaucer both insert themselves into their poems as characters.
Compare and contrast the way that they do this—how they choose to portray
themselves, and what kind of character traits each has. For example, as characters, what
are Dante and Chaucer’s respective attitudes toward sin and vice? Do their attitudes
change or develop over the course of their respective poems? How and why?

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