Imagination and the Complex Movement of Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Kruger, Steven F.

Title
Imagination and the Complex Movement of Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 117-34.

Description
Movement in HF is simultaneously inward and self-reflexive and outward and upward, toward a world of "eternal phenomena" and a realm of "abstract ideas." The poem is thus poised between two worlds, and its incompleteness may indicate Chaucer's despair of reaching a resolution.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.