Venus Unveiled: Lydgate's 'Temple of Glas' and the Religion of Love

Author / Editor
Crockett, Bryan.

Title
Venus Unveiled: Lydgate's 'Temple of Glas' and the Religion of Love

Published
David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 67-93.

Description
Reads Lydgate's "Temple of Glas" as a "sustained, ironic treatment of frustrated love," citing the following as sources of details of the poem and influences on its formal techniques: "Roman de la Rose," HF, TC, PF, KnT, and MerT.

Alternative Title
New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.