'The Floure and the Leafe': An Alternative Reading
- Author / Editor
- Snyder, Cynthia Lockard.
'The Floure and the Leafe': An Alternative Reading
- Published
- David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 145-71.
- Description
- Thought to be the work of Chaucer until the 1870s and long read largely for its style, "The Floure and the Leafe" is an ironic allegory warning readers not to "succumb to the deceptions that have befallen both the Flower and the Leaf." The details and allusions of the poem indicate that it encourages rejection of Fortune.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Late Medieval Poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.