A Recurrent Expression of Devotion in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess,' 'Parliament of Fowls,' and 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Von Kreisler, Nicholai.

Title
A Recurrent Expression of Devotion in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess,' 'Parliament of Fowls,' and 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Modern Philology 68 (1970): 62-64.

Description
Explores Chaucer's intensification of emotion through his uses of variations on loving "with good wille, body, hert, and all," echoes of a biblical injunction.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
Knight and His Tale