The Eagle's Speech in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, William S.
The Eagle's Speech in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Quarterly Journal of Speech 50 (1964): 153-58.
- Description
- Shows that the diction, style, and substance of the Eagle's disquisition on sound in HF (606-863) illustrate the "techniques of Ciceronian persuasive rhetoric on a relevant science, the physics of sound," part of the poem's unifying concern with the medieval pedagogical trivium and their relations to poetry and poetic composition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Style and Versification