Clanvowe's Cuckoo
- Author / Editor
- Chamberlain, David.
Clanvowe's Cuckoo
- Published
- David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 41-65.
- Description
- Long considered a work by Chaucer, "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" is probably by his friend, Sir John Clanvowe. It is a work of considerable wit and subtlety, presenting a "libidinous narrator," a virtuous cuckoo who embodies Christian truth, and a series of literary jokes that involve Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.