Dunbar's Fear of Fame

Author / Editor
Quinn, William A.

Title
Dunbar's Fear of Fame

Published
Essays in Criticism 61.3 (2011): 215-31.

Description
Studies fame, death, and related motifs in William Dunbar's "Lament for the Makars" ("Timor Mortis"), including comments on his echoes of and references to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion