From Phoenix to Chauntecleer: Medieval English Animal Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Honegger, Thomas.
From Phoenix to Chauntecleer: Medieval English Animal Poetry
- Published
- Tubingen: Basil Francke, 1996.
- Physical Description
- 288 pp.
- Series
- Schweizer Anglistiche Arbeiten/Swiss Studies in English, no. 120.
- Swiss Studies in English, no. 120.
- Description
- Assesses the "most important" poems about animals in English literature, ca. 700-1400 A.D., focusing on three traditions: "Physiologus," bird debates, and beast fable and epic. Considers PF as a bird debate, describing how it transcends the allegorical limitations of that tradition. Discusses Chaucer's eclectic uses of all the traditions in NPT and his achievement of a powerfully original combination of comedy and morality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.