Playing at Death : The Suspended Subject of Middle English Lyric
- Author / Editor
- Kinch, Ashby McDalton.
Playing at Death : The Suspended Subject of Middle English Lyric
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3988A, 2001.
- Description
- Central to medieval love poetry is the figure of dying for love--found in works by Marcabru, Bernart de Ventadorn, Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer (BD, TC, complaints), and Alain Chartier, as well as in the Harley lyrics and the Findern manuscript. Donne provides an afterlife.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Lyrics and Short Poems.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Book of the Duchess.