Chaucer's Eagle's Ovid's Phaethon: A Study in Literary Reception

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
Chaucer's Eagle's Ovid's Phaethon: A Study in Literary Reception

Published
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 71-82.

Description
In having the Eagle retell the story of Phaethon from Ovid and from medieval interpretations of Ovid, Chaucer oversimplifies and creates conflicts or deficiencies of meaning; this allusive and contradictory treatment of literary tradition in HF signals Chaucer's method in his later poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.