Irony and the Age of Gold in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Irony and the Age of Gold in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Speculum 52 (1977): 314-28.
- Description
- The narrator of BD, who sees in the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone an exemplum of the loss of their "golden age" love, realizes that the love of the knight is an analogue of the happy fulfillment of the couple's love. Thus, the actual consolation of the elegy comes in an indirect, aesthetic way for the reader and not for the narrator.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.