The 'Dit dou Bleu Chevalier': Froissart's Imitation of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James I.
The 'Dit dou Bleu Chevalier': Froissart's Imitation of Chaucer
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 34 (1972): 388-400.
- Description
- Summarizes similarities between BD and Jean Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier," and argues that Froissart imitated Chaucer's poem, commenting on the occasions of the poems and their relative chronology, narrative and linguistics details, and the "borrowing habits" of the poets, including their uses of Guillaume de Machaut and the "Roman de la Rose."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations