A Note on Chaucer and the 'Ovide moralise'
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, A. J.
A Note on Chaucer and the 'Ovide moralise'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 48 (1979): 254-57.
- Description
- Supports James Wimsatt's contention that the story of Ceyx and Alcyone in BD owes certain details to "Ovide moralise" rather than to the "Metamorphoses" by offering one piece of evidence, namely, that the narrator says that, to drive away the sleepless night, he read a "romaunce," a term more likely to be used by Chaucer for a French work such as the "Ovide moralise" than for a Latin text such as the "Metamorphoses."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.