The Absent Birds and the Squawking Rabble: Chaucer's Rhetoric of Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Foster, Michael.
The Absent Birds and the Squawking Rabble: Chaucer's Rhetoric of Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang GoĢrtschacher, eds. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in English Poetry (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), pp. 51-67.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's use of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in BD is closer to that of Guillaume de Machaut than that of Jean de Meun, and compares and contrasts Chaucer's version of the Ceyx and Alcyone story with those of Machaut and Ovid.
- Contributor
- Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine, ed.
- GoĢrtschacher, Wolfgang, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in English Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations