Classicizing Christianity in Chaucer's Dream Poems: The 'Book of the Duchess,' 'Book of Fame,' and 'Parliament of Fowls'

Author / Editor
Knight, Stephen.

Title
Classicizing Christianity in Chaucer's Dream Poems: The 'Book of the Duchess,' 'Book of Fame,' and 'Parliament of Fowls'

Published
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 143-55.

Description
Contends that although BD, HF, and PF are secular poems, Chaucer's structure and wordplay in the dream poems "juxtaposes the secular and the spiritual, the classical and the Christian in complex tension."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Religion.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Language and Word Studies