The Harmony of Chaucer's 'Parlement' A Dissonant Voice

Author / Editor
Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr.

Title
The Harmony of Chaucer's 'Parlement' A Dissonant Voice

Published
Chaucer Review 9 (1974): 109-24.

Description
Argues that PF "exemplifies and confronts" late fourteenth-century concern with the role of subjective perspective in considering traditional authority. Through various stylized, "thought-marked" perspectives, the poem presents the "disruptive force" of individual experience and the need for "self-limitation"; as a proto-retraction, the roundel presages the endings of TC and CT by reauthorizing authority.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls