A Study of the Literary Garden Tradition and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Harig, Sister Mary LaboureĢ, S.N.D.
A Study of the Literary Garden Tradition and Chaucer
- Published
- DAI 32.08 (1972): 4465A.
- Description
- Surveys the rise of the garden topos in western literary traditions--classical and medieval, idealized and courtly. Then assesses Chaucer's uses of the traditional iconography of garden conventions in Rom, BD, PF, LGWP, HF, TC, and CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Romaunt of the Rose
- Book of the Duchess
- Parliament of Fowls
- House of Fame
- Legend of Good Women
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations