A View of Chaucer's Astronomy
- Author / Editor
- Smyser, Hamilton M.
A View of Chaucer's Astronomy
- Published
- Speculum 45 (1970): 359-73.
- Description
- Contrasts Chaucer's familiarity with and uses of astronomy and astrology with those of other Middle English authors, particularly John Gower. Indicates that 1380 is a turning point in Chaucer's uses of astral sciences, suggesting that he accepted the predictive value of astrology, and that astrology and astronomy can help to establish the dates and meanings of many of his works, particularly PF, Mars, TC, and MLT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Life
- Parliament of Fowls
- Complaint of Mars
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Miller and His Tale