The Other Side of the Garden: An Interpretive Comparison of Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess' and Spenser's 'Daphnaida'
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Duncan,and Nancy L. Steffen.
The Other Side of the Garden: An Interpretive Comparison of Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess' and Spenser's 'Daphnaida'
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 8 (1978): 17-36.
- Description
- That "Daphnaida" is based on BD has long been recognized. But whereas Chaucer's poem works within the conventions to assuage grief, Spenser's anti-pastoral produces an uncomfortable tension between instruction and pity.
- Contributor
- Steffen, Nancy L.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.