The Narrator and His Narrative in Chaucer's "Parlement."
- Author / Editor
- Wilhelm, James J.
The Narrator and His Narrative in Chaucer's "Parlement."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 1.4 (1967): 201-06.
- Description
- Comments on the tripartite structure of PF, its shifting tone and three styles (religious/philosophical, romantic, realistic), the sad plight of the narrator who is left without love, and the predominance of Nature, the poem's "heroine" who fails to offer fulfillment. Identifies parallels between PF and the "Pervigilium Veneris."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations