The Flower of the Imagination: French Marguerite Poetry and Chaucer's Prologue to 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Lanier, Sidney.
The Flower of the Imagination: French Marguerite Poetry and Chaucer's Prologue to 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1977): 5800A.
- Description
- LGW provides an important statement of Chaucer's poetics. It recognizes his genuine debt to his French contemporaries. The poet-dreamer does not reject or parody the tradition of "fin amor," but under its direction he acknowledges the poet's duty to praise God and serve the world by writing of the diversity of love.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.