Formal Elements in the Late Medieval Courtly Love Lyric

Author / Editor
Merrill, Rodney Harpster.

Title
Formal Elements in the Late Medieval Courtly Love Lyric

Published
DAI 31.08 (1971): 4172A.

Description
Considers lyric poems "not as statements but as imitation of statements," and includes discussion of the "Brooch of Thebes" (i.e., Chaucer's Mars and Ven). Also comments on Chaucer's relations with Eustace Deschmaps and Oton de Grandson.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint of Mars
Complaint of Venus
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations