The Pagan Setting of the 'Franklin's Tale' and the Sources of Dorigen's Cosmology
- Author / Editor
- Hume, Kathryn.
The Pagan Setting of the 'Franklin's Tale' and the Sources of Dorigen's Cosmology
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 44 (1972): 289-94.
- Description
- Argues that Dorigen's lament is "not necessarily Christian," derived as it is from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "spiced with reminiscences" of Ovid's "Metamorphoses." Reads the lament as "completely consonant with what Chaucer regarded as pagan philosophy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations