Chaucer's Poetic Adventure: Elegy of Love, Beauty, and Death

Author / Editor
Ikegami, Tadahiro.

Title
Chaucer's Poetic Adventure: Elegy of Love, Beauty, and Death

Published
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 119-41 (in Japanese).

Description
Examines how BD was influenced by the conventions of French and Latin literature. Concludes that the poet found novelty in classical authors and created his own imaginary love poem.

Alternative Title
Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess.
Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.