Science and Poetry in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
Science and Poetry in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 8 (1967): 38-45.
- Description
- Interprets the eagle's descent on the narrator in HF in light of medieval medical theory, contending that it is "actually an apoplectic seizure in 'visionary' form—a 'stroke'." Also, the eagle's oration on sound evinces Chaucer's familiarity with late-medieval "scientific reading," in particular Walter Burley's commentary of Aristotelian physics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations