The Dreamer, the Whelp, and Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John Block.
The Dreamer, the Whelp, and Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 3.3 (1969): 145-162.
- Description
- More than merely consolation for John of Gaunt, BD conveys the "more universal theme" of "personal loss and its effects on man's physical and psychic condition." Traditionally associated in various sources with leading, with healing, and with dialectic and wisdom, the whelp in the poem leads the Dreamer to the Black Knight and thereby prompts a dialectic process of healing and consolation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations