'My first matere I wil yow telle': Losing (and Finding) Your Place in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Author / Editor
Kensak, Michael.

Title
'My first matere I wil yow telle': Losing (and Finding) Your Place in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 83-96.

Description
Assesses the narrator's digressions and "digression-returns" in BD, arguing that they are part of Chaucer's indications of the inexpressibility of grief.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.