Boethian Resonance in Chaucer's 'Canticus Troili'

Author / Editor
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.

Title
Boethian Resonance in Chaucer's 'Canticus Troili'

Published
Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 219-27.

Description
The "Canticus Troili," Chaucer's adaptation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132, alters words and phrases from the original and concentrates on Petrarch's content rather than his form. But it also contains syntax and subject matter from Bo, which Chaucer had previously translated and was weaving thematically throughout TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Lyrics and Short Poems.