Smoky Reyn: From Jean de Meun to Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Smoky Reyn: From Jean de Meun to Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 1-21.
- Description
- TC 3.638 is a "translation" of the Virgilian rainstorm in bk. 4 of the "Aeneid" and of the emanations of Genius's aphrodisiac candle ("Roman de la Rose" 20638-48), and as such is symptomatic of Chaucer's tendency to follow Jean de Meun in providing a Boethian critique of the Ovidian erotic code.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.