Aurelius' Prayer, Franklin's Tale 1031-79: Sources and Analogues

Author / Editor
Fumo, Jamie C.

Title
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.