Chaucer's Use of the Student-Teacher Relationship as an Artistic Technique in His Early Poems

Author / Editor
Bisson, Lillian Marie.

Title
Chaucer's Use of the Student-Teacher Relationship as an Artistic Technique in His Early Poems

Published
DAI 30.12 (1970): 5400A.

Description
Studies Chaucer's first-person narrators of BD, PF, and HF as "students" who are instructed by some pedagogical authority, considering also the narrator of TC as well as the student-teacher relationship between Pandarus and Troilus. Assesses the poetic precedents in Boethius, Alain de Lille, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, and Dante.

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