'The Book of the Duchess': Secular Elegy of Religious Vision?
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James I.
'The Book of the Duchess': Secular Elegy of Religious Vision?
- Published
- John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 113-29.
- Description
- Reconciles Wimsatt's other writings on BD--one emphasizing the closeness of BD to fourteenth-century French love poetry, the other studying the religious significance of the poem in the context of Christian tradition--which produce quite different readings.
- Alternative Title
- Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.