'Amor Gloriae' in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Watts, Ann C.
'Amor Gloriae' in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (1973): 87-113.
- Description
- Considers the ambivalent treatment of fame in HF: as a sinful desire, as a goal for poets, and as an "amoral record of the past." Argues that this ambivalence is rooted in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and that it reflects Chaucer's contemplations about his poetic career, perhaps in anticipation of writing TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Troilus and Criseyde