'Anelida and Arcite': A Narrative of Complaint and Comfort
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James I.
'Anelida and Arcite': A Narrative of Complaint and Comfort
- Published
- Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 1-8.
- Description
- Argues that Anel is "more a stylized emotional history than a series of meaningful events." In its plot, mode, and formal features, it is more akin to French love narratives ("'dits' of complaint and comfort") than other models that have been proposed. Offers conjectures about how the poem may have ended, if Chaucer had completed it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Anelida and Arcite
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations