Creation in Genesis and Nature in Chaucer's 'General Prologue' 1-18

Author / Editor
Nitzsche, Jane Chance.

Title
Creation in Genesis and Nature in Chaucer's 'General Prologue' 1-18

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 14 (1978): 459-64. Rpt. in Harold Bloom, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (New York: Chelsea, 1988).

Description
In the opening of GP, Chaucer follows the six days of Creation narrated in Genesis. The principles both of "natura naturata," created Nature, and of "natura naturans," renewing Nature, inform this passage.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.