The Anatomy of Compassion: Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Wilson, G. R., Jr.

Title
The Anatomy of Compassion: Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Texas Studies in Literature and Language14 (1972): 381-88.

Description
Charts the development of the dreamer in BD from concern with abstract grief to concern with real grief and from selfishness to concern for others; this progress effects "a detailed anatomy of compassion" that encourages compassion in Chaucer's readers.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess