The Lyf So Short--Studies in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Author / Editor
Overbeck, M. Patricia T.

Title
The Lyf So Short--Studies in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Published
DAI 30.07 (1970): 2977A.

Description
Explores how in BD, HF, and PF "Chaucer concretizes abstractions, turning ideas into poetic form." The poems are "artistic recreations of medieval literary and philosophical commonplaces about life."

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