Venus and the Mother of Romulus: The 'Parliament of Fowls' and the 'Pervigilium Veneris'

Author / Editor
Donaldson, E. Talbot.

Title
Venus and the Mother of Romulus: The 'Parliament of Fowls' and the 'Pervigilium Veneris'

Published
Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 313-18.

Description
J. E. Hankins' view of the "Pervigilium Veneris" as a source for PF has not caught on because no one has yet found a persuasive verbal echo. Such an echo appears in the list of persons love has destroyed: PF, 286-92 has a counterpart in "Pervigilium," 69-74.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.