'Be Processe of Tyme': Chaucer's Invention of Poetry in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Martin, Ellen Elizabeth.
'Be Processe of Tyme': Chaucer's Invention of Poetry in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1984): 3073A.
- Description
- BD can be read not as a discontinuous apprentice work but as "a myth of the invention of poetry," with its stories and images yet to be molded into psychological and thematic cohesion. Imagination precedes signification.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.