'The Book of the Duchess'--A Consolation?
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
'The Book of the Duchess'--A Consolation?
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 45 (1973): 53-67.
- Description
- Argues that BD is not a traditional consolation but rather a "poetic monument in honor of Blanche." The poem's narrator is "singularly unfitted for the role of comforter" and inconsistent with the poet's own self-consciousness as an artist.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess