Shades of Love in the "Parlement of Foules."

Author / Editor
Selvin, Rhoda Hurwitt.

Title
Shades of Love in the "Parlement of Foules."

Published
Studia Neophilologica 37 (1965): 146-60.

Description
Comments on the varieties of love in PF, describing how the initiating concern with heavenly love in the summary of Scipio's dream is recalled and reinforced through the structure and details of the poem, conveying the need for "caritas," "common profit," and'or theological love among human beings, if not among birds.

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