Chaucer's "Impossibilia."
- Author / Editor
- Brookhouse, Christopher
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
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