The Pattern of Time in 'The Parlement of Foules'

Author / Editor
Entzminger, Robert L.

Title
The Pattern of Time in 'The Parlement of Foules'

Published
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1975): 1-11.

Description
The poet juxtaposes the narrator's dream to a summary of the "Somnium Scipionis," reconciling Venus and Nature, and resolving the strain of living in a world of abstract thought and human experience.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.