A Poetics of Personification

Author / Editor
Paxson, James J.

Title
A Poetics of Personification

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2484A.

Description
Although personification is currently devalued, analysis of its poetic codes of invention reveals its complexity in the works of Prudentius, Langland, Spenser and Chaucer (HF and PF).

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
House of Fame.
Parliament of Fowls.