The 'Ubi Sunt' Passages in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Matsuda, Takami.
The 'Ubi Sunt' Passages in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Studies in English Literature, English number, 59 (1983): 101-25.
- Description
- Traces the "growing versatility" of the "ubi sunt" motif in Middle English literature--its emotional impact, its relations with the theme of mutability, and its potential for expressing nostalgia--concluding with a comparison of Chaucer's uses of the motif, especially in TC 5.218-24, and François Villon's uses in his ballades.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde