Literary Allusion in Chaucer's Ballade, 'Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere'
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Helen.
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.