Love and the Declining World : Ovid, Genesis, and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
Love and the Declining World : Ovid, Genesis, and Chaucer

Published
Mediaevalia 13 (1989, for 1987): 295-307.

Description
Ovid's views on humanity's decline from the first age influence Chaucer's "Former Age": Chaucer's use of Lamech in WBT, SqT, and Anel; and his distrust of rhetorical ornament (as evidenced by the Franklin and BD, for example).

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.