"I" and "We" in Chaucer's "Complaint unto Pity."

Author / Editor
Cervone, Cristina Maria.

Title
"I" and "We" in Chaucer's "Complaint unto Pity."

Published
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 195-214.

Description
Proposes to resituate Pity within a "medieval mode of metaphysical poetry" because of its "collective subjectivity." Reveals how Pity, because of its allegorical and lyrical metaphysical aspects, deserves closer attention as an "example of medieval poetics engaging in metaphysics."

Alternative Title
Readings in Medieval Textuality.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint unto Pity