Making His Own Myth: The Prologue to Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Payne, Robert O.
Making His Own Myth: The Prologue to Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 197-211.
- Description
- The "G" Prologue to LGW is central to Chaucer's poetic career both chronologically and artistically. The Prologue and its narrator are a "mythic distillation" of Chaucer's earlier works and show the love poet's mature awareness of his position in both the historical and literary worlds.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.