Ambition and Anxiety in The House of Fame and The Garlande of Laurell

Author / Editor
Bennett, Alastair.

Title
Ambition and Anxiety in The House of Fame and The Garlande of Laurell

Published
Marginalia 2 (2005): n.p.

Description
Compares the attitudes toward fame and poetic fame in HF and in Skelton's The Garlande of Laurell, arguing that Chaucer's willingness to accept the Boethian transience of fame contrasts a greater desire for certainty in Skelton.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.