'More Stars, God Knows, Than a Pair': Social Class and the Common Good in Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Hawes, Clement.
'More Stars, God Knows, Than a Pair': Social Class and the Common Good in Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 15:2 (1989): 12-25.
- Description
- The dream in PF is a "populist countervision" both to Cicero's "Dream of Scipio's" "stoicism that excludes love" and to the tercelets' 'fine amour that abuses (love)." Ultimately, "it is precisely the earthy and earthlythat are shown to serve...the common good."