Chaucer's Heliotropes and the Poetics of Metaphor

Author / Editor
Travis, Peter W.

Title
Chaucer's Heliotropes and the Poetics of Metaphor

Published
Speculum 72 (1997): 399-427.

Description
Discusses uses of solar metaphor in Chaucer by way of Ovid and Machaut, focusing on LGWP and NPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Legend of Good Women.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.