The Pilgrimage of Troilus's Sailing Heart in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Burjorjee, D. M.

Title
The Pilgrimage of Troilus's Sailing Heart in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Annuale Mediaevale 13 (1972): 14-31.

Description
Surveys nautical imagery and pilgrimage-on-the-sea-of-life metaphors in the sources to TC, and discusses book by book Chaucer's uses of such figures in his poem, especially the sailing heart image, arguing that the varieties of imagery cohere to "articulate the idea of spiritual pilgrimage."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
Style and Versification