Chaucer and the "Sir Orfeo" Prologue of the Auchinleck MS.
- Author / Editor
- Heydon, Peter N.
Chaucer and the "Sir Orfeo" Prologue of the Auchinleck MS.
- Published
- Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 51 (1966): 529-45.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer was influenced by the now-lost Prologue to "Sir Orfeo" of the Auchinleck manuscript, evident in similarities in "concept, diction, and syntax" between the FranP and the extant versions of the "Orfeo" prologue and between the Franklin and Orfeo, even though Chaucer's "own poetic intention" consistently "tempered" his work.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations