Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness: Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.

Title
Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness: Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer

Published
Comparative Literature 65.1 (2013): 85-100.

Description
Focuses on the episode of "wood-stripping" that occurs in Statius' :Thebaid" (6.84-117), Boccaccio's "Teseida" (11), and KnT (4.2919-62). While Statius' account is the major model for the others, all versions imply social-political criticism, express nostalgia for a localized landscape, and evoke an emotional response to natural phenomena.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations