Chaucer's Curial Satire: the 'Balade de bon Conseyl'
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, V. J.
Chaucer's Curial Satire: the 'Balade de bon Conseyl'
- Published
- Hermathena 133 (1982): 29-45.
- Description
- "Balade de bon Conseyl," or Truth, the most popular of Chaucer's short poems, is generally thought to be derived from the Bible and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy." Out of the twenty-four copies, only in one version does the envoy to "Vache" appear. The poem is clearly a formal ballad and does not contain all the characteristics of an epistolary curial satire.
- Reprinted in Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 199-214.
- Alternative Title
- Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Truth.