Chaucer, Lucretius, and the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning.
Chaucer, Lucretius, and the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Classical and Modern Literature 20.2: 61-65, 2000.
- Description
- Lucretius's "De rerum natura" may have influenced the reverdie, or spring song, that opens GP. Lucretius's reverdie predates and almost certainly influenced those in the "Georgics" and the "Pervigilius veneris," already linked to The General Prologue.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.