Chaucer's Eagles and Their Choice on February 14.
- Author / Editor
- Stillwell, Gardiner.
Chaucer's Eagles and Their Choice on February 14.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 53 (1954): 546-61.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts the relative courtliness of a range of Valentine's Day poems by Graunson, Gower, Lydgate, and Charles of Orleans to make clear that the First Eagle's address to the formel eagle in PF is comically inappropriate and pompous, even aggressive. Extends the argument Stillwell posed in "Unity and Comedy in the 'Parlement of Foules,'" JEGP 49 (1950): 470-95.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations