Chaucer's Windy Eagle
- Author / Editor
- Leyerle, John.
Chaucer's Windy Eagle
- Published
- University of Toronto Quarterly 40 (1971): 247-65
- Description
- Considers the date and thematic unity of HF, suggesting that the eagle is crucial to perceiving both of them, with the astrological sign of the eagle ("Aquila") indicating the date and the Eagle's discourse on sound central to the poem's concern with the arbitrariness and equivalence of fame and farts. Comments on the Eagle as a figure of Jupiter's messager, its associations with gospel lecterns, and its origins in Dante and Boethius. Includes four b&w illustrations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations