Aurelius' Prayer, Franklin's Tale 1031-79: Sources and Analogues
- Author / Editor
- Fumo, Jamie C.
Aurelius' Prayer, Franklin's Tale 1031-79: Sources and Analogues
- Published
- Neophilologus 88 (2004): 623-35
- Description
- Chaucer modeled the prayer for the removal of the rocks on a cluster of literary precedents, from Boccaccio to Boethius, Ovid, and Marian lyrics. Chaucer was as interested in the works' interpenetration as in the ironic tensions among them.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.