A Study of the Literary Garden Tradition and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Harig, Sister Mary LaboureĢ, S.N.D.

Title
A Study of the Literary Garden Tradition and Chaucer

Published
DAI 32.08 (1972): 4465A.

Description
Surveys the rise of the garden topos in western literary traditions--classical and medieval, idealized and courtly. Then assesses Chaucer's uses of the traditional iconography of garden conventions in Rom, BD, PF, LGWP, HF, TC, and CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Romaunt of the Rose
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations