Chaucer's Contemporary Guillaume de Machaut: A Critical Study of Four 'Dits amoureux'

Author / Editor
Ehrhart, Margaret Jean.

Title
Chaucer's Contemporary Guillaume de Machaut: A Critical Study of Four 'Dits amoureux'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7299A-300A.

Description
Through study of Machaut's 'dits', we begin to get a sense of what Chaucer saw in Machaut's work. In addition to appreciation of his style, Chaucer must have recognized in Machaut's constant theme--human love, rightly and wrongly ordered--a sense of intellectual kinship.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.