Chaucer and the Canticle of Canticles
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James I.
Chaucer and the Canticle of Canticles
- Published
- Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 66-90.
- Description
- Surveys the uses of the biblical Song of Songs in medieval secular love poetry as background to exploring Chaucer's uses of it in BD and TC, and his comic adaptations of it in MerT and MilT.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer the Love Poet.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Merchant and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale