'The Parliament of Fowls': Chaucer's Mirror Up to Nature?

Author / Editor
Rothschild, Victoria.

Title
'The Parliament of Fowls': Chaucer's Mirror Up to Nature?

Published
Review of English Studies 35 (1984): 164-84.

Description
The symbolic structure of PF reinforces meaning; its three sections mirror the divisions of time; allusions to time and nature point toward a natural rather than social hierarchy. As an epithalamium, PF involves the natural world in a time-transcending ceremony.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.