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