'Be Processe of Tyme': Chaucer's Invention of Poetry in the 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Martin, Ellen Elizabeth.

Title
'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.