The Eagle's Speech in Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Wilson, William S.

Title
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