The Pilgrimage of Troilus's Sailing Heart in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Burjorjee, D. M.
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