A Note on 'Hyre' in Parliament of Fowls, 284
- Author / Editor
- Klassen, Norman.
A Note on 'Hyre' in Parliament of Fowls, 284
- Published
- N&Q 251 (2006): 154-57.
- Description
- The antecedent of "hyre" in PF 284 must be Venus rather than Diana. This reading reveals the logic of Chaucer's placement of Callisto and Atalanta at the head of his list of famous lovers and leads "inexorably to the conclusion that one wastes one's life in the service of Venus and that Chaucer has inverted the logic of male desire."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.