Love and the Declining World : Ovid, Genesis, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
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.