Dialogue and Invention in the Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Watson, Robert A.
Dialogue and Invention in the Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Modern Philology 98: 543-76, 2001.
- Description
- Watson coins the phrase "Ciceronian Platonism," defined as the "emphasis on the poetics of 'sermo'," suggesting that the earliest evidence of Chaucer's interest in the notion appears in BD, a poem offering "a Socratic therapy as filtered through both Ciceronian and Christian experience."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.