Chaucer's January and May: Counterparts in Claudian
- Author / Editor
- Donovan, Mortimer J.
Chaucer's January and May: Counterparts in Claudian
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: Univeristy of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 59-69.
- Description
- Glosses in Class Alpha mss of Claudian's "De Raptu Proserpinae," which Chaucer could have used at school, explain his description of Pluto and Proserpina as Fairies, his "many a lady" following Proserpina, the terrifying tone of Pluto's "grisely carte," the trickery practised by the godes, the offense January gave to Nature, and the January/May, Pluto/Proserpina contrasts.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.