Chaucer's Imagery

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
Chaucer's Imagery

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 117-42.

Description
Chaucer's figurative language is mostly traditional, but its effect usually transcends the merely visual: it is emotional and intellectual--aiming at more than concrete realism. Often, however, the nature of this imagery eludes us because Chaucer's world is so different from ours.
Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.

Alternative Title
Companion to Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.