Old Age, Love, and Friendship in Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan

Author / Editor
Scattergood, John.

Title
Old Age, Love, and Friendship in Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan

Published
Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 92-101.

Description
Explains the different strands in Scog partly through elements taken from Cicero's De amicitia and partly through its nature as a begging poem for Michaelmas, when annuities were renewed.
Reprinted in Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 215-25.

Alternative Title
Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Envoy to Scogan.