Image and Abstraction: Six Middle English Religious Lyrics
- Author / Editor
- Rogers, William Elford.
Image and Abstraction: Six Middle English Religious Lyrics
- Published
- Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972.
- Physical Description
- 128 pp.
- Series
- Anglistica, no. 18.
- Description
- Prints the text of ABC along with its source, i.e., lines 10,893-11,168 of Guillaume de Guilleville's "Pélèrinage de la Vie Humaine." Discusses ABC as a "direct paraphrase," considering how deviations from the source, particularly in imagery, indicate that Chaucer "focuses attention to a greater extent on doctrine" and achieves greater unity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- ABC
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations