Thematic Continuity in Chaucer's Early Poetry

Author / Editor
Davis, Daryl Richard.

Title
Thematic Continuity in Chaucer's Early Poetry

Published
DAI 31.05 (1970): 2379A.

Description
Identifies a "significant continuity of thought" in BD, HF, and PF: "their shared concern" with Nature and Fortune as principles of order and fertility, on the one hand, and disorder on the other. Traces the roots of these concerns in Boethius, Alain de Lille, and Jean de Meun, and explores their presence and emphases in Chaucer's early dream visions.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls