Chaucer's Valentine: The 'Parlement of Foules'

Author / Editor
Cawley, A. C.

Title
Chaucer's Valentine: The 'Parlement of Foules'

Published
A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 125-39.

Description
Reads the garden in PF as a "picture of the world in a fallen state," in contrast with Scipio's "celestial paradise." The contrast is highlighted by different "time-schemes," and the work leaves unresolved the paradoxes of love's varieties.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Mind and Art.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations