Chaucer and Ovidian Elegy

Author / Editor
Getty, Laura Joanne.

Title
Chaucer and Ovidian Elegy

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2503A, 1999.

Description
Study of extant manuscripts from fourteenth-century England reveals that Chaucer was familiar with Ovidian texts and commentaries of his time. He developed his own adaptation of tone and vocabulary, exploring the tension between courtly love and Ovidian elegy in LGW and LGWP.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.