Chaucer and the Consolation of 'Prosimetrum'
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor.
Chaucer and the Consolation of 'Prosimetrum'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 455-72.
- Description
- Boethius's "prosimetrum" lets readers experience the "consolation of temporality" that Philosophy offers. In Bo, Chaucer demonstrates his understanding of this consolation by highlighting Philosophy's references to time; however, by rendering the work entirely in prose, Chaucer leaves a metrical "aestheticization" of time for another work: CYT is a work of "verse alchemy," in which Chaucer "writes his own consolation," though one of "poetry, rather than . . . prosimetrum."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
- Style and Versification