'Wonder and Words': Paganism, Christianity, and Consolation in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Dilorenzo, Raymond D.
'Wonder and Words': Paganism, Christianity, and Consolation in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- University of Toronto Quarterly 52 (1982), 20-39.
- Description
- BD deals with a universal concern, response to the death of a loved person. In a Christian world the knight, mourning his lady, finds consolation by expressing her beauty and goodness in words; he returns to the present world with a suggestion of heaven to come.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.