The Structural Importance of the Proem and the 'Somnium Scipionis' to the Unity of 'The Parliament of Fowls'

Author / Editor
Mucchetti, Emil A.

Title
The Structural Importance of the Proem and the 'Somnium Scipionis' to the Unity of 'The Parliament of Fowls'

Published
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 4.3 (1978): 1-10.

Description
In PF Proem, Chaucer uses the "Somnium" to maintain that the chasm between terrestrial and celestial love is bridgeable. Common profit is a moral and spiritual concept through which human love can assume greater order and direction.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.