The Sources of Chaucer's "Seys and Alcyone."

Author / Editor
Wimsatt, James I.

Title
The Sources of Chaucer's "Seys and Alcyone."

Published
Medium Aevum 36.3 (1967): 231-41.

Description
Focusing on the exemplum of Ceyx and Alcyone in BD, illustrates Chaucer's "early use of multiple sources in close alternating sequence," discussing source relations with Machaut, Froissart, Virgil, Ovid, Statius, the "Ovide Moralise," and the "Roman de la Rose." Also comments on the date of Chaucer's composition.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations