The Prologue to the 'General Prologue': Chaucer's Statement about Nature in the Opening Lines of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Spraycar, Rudy S.

Title
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.