Courtly Language and the Strategy of Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Boardman, Phillip C.
Courtly Language and the Strategy of Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- ELH 44 (1977): 567-79.
- Description
- In BD, Chaucer, working in a tradition of courtly style, composes a poem of consolation. Within a beautiful poem of human sympathy, Chaucer effects a critique of courtly language and exposes the inability of such language to express profound experience by applying it to the experience of death.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Language and Word Studies.