Chaucer's 'House of Fame' and the 'Rota Virgilii'
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Chaucer's 'House of Fame' and the 'Rota Virgilii'
- Published
- Classical and Modern Literature 1 (1980): 57-75.
- Description
- Argues that HF is organized and coherent: it is consistently concerned with poetic art, its tripartite structure is based on the "rhetorical doctrine of three styles," and the styles correlate with the "three principal works" of Virgil" ("Aeneid"/epic, "Georgics"/didactic, and "Bucolics"/third genre). In his "Poetria," John of Garland schematizes this as the "Rota Virgilii," and Dane reads HF as Chaucer's consideration of literary authority and traditional genres.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations