Chaucer's Art of Verbal Allusion: Two Notes

Author / Editor
Burnley, J. D.

Title
Chaucer's Art of Verbal Allusion: Two Notes

Published
Neophilologus 56 (1972): 93-99.

Description
Demonstrates Chaucer's "skills as a miniaturist," discussing antecedents in rhetorical tradition to the phrase "places delitables" (i.e., "locus amoenus") in FranT (5.899) and the interdependence of "moral and physical gifts" in the description of Blanche in BD (866-77) which combines the rhetorical devices of "notatio" and "effictio."

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
Style and Versification