Rocky Shores and Pleasure Gardens: Poetry vs. Magic in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Kolve, V. A.

Title
Rocky Shores and Pleasure Gardens: Poetry vs. Magic in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 165-95.

Description
An illustrated analysis of moral and aesthetic issues raised by Chaucer. The rocks, garden, and study that form the loci of FranT carry iconographic meaning suggesting a true poetics of illusion.

Alternative Title
Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.