A Moral Garden "out of olde feldes": Deallegorized Virtue in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Author / Editor
Powrie, Sarah.

Title
A Moral Garden "out of olde feldes": Deallegorized Virtue in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Published
Modern Philology 114 (2016): 170-94.

Description
Argues that when read in the light of the moralized garden in Alan of Lille's "Plaint of Nature," the "locus amoenus" of PF is "an ethically charged terrain," in which the narrator successively exemplifies and then deviates from the virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice. Thus, PF presents a "dynamic portrait of moral agency."

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations