Chaucer, Fortune, and Machaut's 'Il m'est avis'

Author / Editor
Wimsatt, James I.

Title
Chaucer, Fortune, and Machaut's 'Il m'est avis'

Published
Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 119-31.

Description
From BD at the beginning of his career to Sted at the end, Chaucer made use of Machaut's ballade, "Il m'est avis." He drew on it for the translation of Bo, for MerT, and for For. Its images appear especially in BD and in MerT, its philosophical language in Bo, and its viewpoint and social comment in Sted. All of those aspects enter into For.

Alternative Title
Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Lak of Stedfastnesse.
Fortune.
Merchant and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.