Chaucer: "Heigh Ymaginacioun."
- Author / Editor
- Hamm, Victor M.
Chaucer: "Heigh Ymaginacioun."
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 394-95.
- Description
- Suggests that "Chauntecleer's dream . . . prophesied the col-fox's attack" in NPT 73215-18, adducing the neo-Platonic tradition that associates "the imagination with prophetic vision through dreams," and noting that Dante uses "alta fantasia" ("high imagination") twice, in "Purgatorio" 17.25 and "Paradiso" 33.142.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations