A Borrowing from Tibullus in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Carr, John.

Title
A Borrowing from Tibullus in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published
Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 191-97.

Description
Proposes that the first line of HF derives directly from Tibullus (III.iv.95) and hypothesizes that Chaucer may have had access to a manuscript of Tibullus's work (Codex Ambrosianus) held by Coluccio Salutati in 1373.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations