A Moral Garden "out of olde feldes": Deallegorized Virtue in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."
- Author / Editor
- Powrie, Sarah.
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