Chaucer's Use of Courtly Love Terms PART I
- Author / Editor
- Hira, Toshinori.
Chaucer's Use of Courtly Love Terms PART I
- Published
- Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Humanities 13 (1972): 53-66.
- Description
- Surveys Chaucer's uses of courtly notions in his poetry, focusing on courtesy, service, connections with feudalism and Christianity, and the lady's grace and mercy; also comments on the negative qualities of somnolence and gluttony. Draws examples from a range of works, including Rom, KnT, LGWP, BD, Mars, John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and "A Hymn to the Virgin."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Romaunt of the Rose
- Knight and His Tale
- Legend of Good Women
- Book of the Duchess
- Complaint of Mars