Chaucer's "Impossibilia."

Author / Editor
Brookhouse, Christopher

Title
Chaucer's "Impossibilia."

Published
Medium Ævum 34.1 (1965): 40-42.

Description
Identifies several instances of Chaucer's uses of lists of impossibilities (rhetorical "adynata" or "impossibilia") in "personal laments and exclamations of fidelity and sincerity" (TC, BD, Anel), giving classical precedents in Virgil's "Eclogues" and Ovid's "Heroides."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Anelida ad Arcite
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification