Literary Allusion in Chaucer's Ballade, 'Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere'

Author / Editor
Phillips, Helen.

Title
Literary Allusion in Chaucer's Ballade, 'Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere'

Published
Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 134-49.

Description
Chaucer's catalog of women in LGWP contains attributes specifically chosen to reflect both the themes of the work itself and allusions to other literary works on the respective characters. Chaucer thus demonstrates his knowledge of previous treatments of the themes in earlier writers and books.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.