Dryden's 'To the Duchess of Ormond': Identifying Her Plantagenet Predecessor
- Author / Editor
- Reverand, Cedric D.
Dryden's 'To the Duchess of Ormond': Identifying Her Plantagenet Predecessor
- Published
- N&Q 252 (2007): 57-60.
- Description
- In the opening poem of "Fables Ancient and Modern," Dryden draws a parallel between himself and Chaucer. The "fairest Nymph" in that parallel should be identified as the Duchess of Lancaster, as proposed by Walter Scott in 1808, rather than Joan of Kent, "the standard gloss" that George C. Craik put forward in 1897.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.