The 'Parliament of Fowls'

Author / Editor
Baker, Donald C.

Title
The 'Parliament of Fowls'

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 428-45.

Description
Substantive criticism of PF really begins in 1935 with Bronson, who stated that the poem is a study of contrasts between man's views of love. Later critics have elaborated this view, noting the polarities of the work: the "Somnium" and the garden, "caritas" and passion, Africanus and Cytherea.
Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.

Alternative Title
Companion to Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.