Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and Its French Background.
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James Irving.
Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and Its French Background.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 27.04 (1966): 1041A.
- Description
- Describes the French influences on BD of, among others, three poems by Machaut, one by Froissart, and Guillaume de Lorris's portion of the "Roman de la Rose," demonstrating the dependence and innovations of Chaucer's work in the tradition of the "dits amoreaux."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations