The Prologue to the 'General Prologue': Chaucer's Statement about Nature in the Opening Lines of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Spraycar, Rudy S.
The Prologue to the 'General Prologue': Chaucer's Statement about Nature in the Opening Lines of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 81 (1980): 142-49.
- Description
- The spring opening of GP may reflect Alain de Lille's concepts in "De Planctu Naturae," indicating the connection between nature's amorous regeneration and man's need for spiritual renewal.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General prologue to the Canterbury Tales.