'Womanly Noblesse' and 'To Rosemounde': Point and Counterpoint of Chaucerian Love Lyrics

Author / Editor
Fichte, Joerg O.

Title
'Womanly Noblesse' and 'To Rosemounde': Point and Counterpoint of Chaucerian Love Lyrics

Published
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 181-94.

Description
In Wom Nob, Chaucer uses traditional "topoi" and rhetorical and syntactic structure in French style; Ros is a playful parody of these conventions.

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.
To Rosemounde
Womanly Noblesse