The Art of Memory and the Art of Poetry in the 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
The Art of Memory and the Art of Poetry in the 'House of Fame'
- Published
- Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 51 (1981): 163-71.
- Description
- Chaucer's address to Thought in the Invocation to book 2 stresses the function of memory in his art. Love tidings are words from old books. Books are still the activator of new poems, even though "auctorite" may be enriched by "experimentum." The poet's task is to translate words into images, which must then be transmuted into a new poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.