The Subjects of Chaucer's Poetry.

Author / Editor
Patch, Howard R.

Title
The Subjects of Chaucer's Poetry.

Published
Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., and Robert P. Creed, eds. Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 1965), pp. 255-64.

Description
Describes a series of recurrent concerns in Chaucer's poetry: pity (but not sentimentality), remarkable female characterizations, a complicated view of love, and the "theme of death."

Alternative Title
Franciplegius

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism