Chaucer's 'Complaint of Venus' and the 'Curiosite' of Graunson
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, John.
Chaucer's 'Complaint of Venus' and the 'Curiosite' of Graunson
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 44 (1994): 171-89.
- Description
- John Shirley's comments about the relationship of Ven to court scandal have been misconstrued, disguising the poem's connection to Otto de Graunson's "Cinq ballades." Chaucer used five ballades to realize Graunson's "curiosite" (intricate workmanship), exploring the diminishing not of love but of composition. In Ven, memory, though diminished,consoles.
- Reprinted in Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 226-239.
- Alternative Title
- Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Venus.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.