Chaucer's Tenderness and the Theme of Consolation

Author / Editor
Masui, Michio.

Title
Chaucer's Tenderness and the Theme of Consolation

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 214-21.

Description
Assesses the "tenderness" of Chaucer's own feelings by examining his adaptations of the genre of consolation in BD and his techniques for evoking "consolatory feeling" in TC.

Alternative Title
"Studies Presented to Tauno Mustanoja on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde