Alison and the Swallow

Author / Editor
Andrew, Malcolm.

Title
Alison and the Swallow

Published
Archiv fur das studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 224 (1987): 355-57.

Description
The comparison of Alison to a swallow in MilT 3257-58 may refer to the story of Procne. The tale (from Ovid) is mentioned both in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and in Chaucer's TC; it suggests the very sort of material woe found in MiltT.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.