Exegetical Grammar in the "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, William S.
Exegetical Grammar in the "House of Fame."
- Published
- English Language Notes 1.4 (1964): 244-48.
- Description
- Reads Chaucer's summary of Virgil's "Aeneid" in Book 1 of HF as comic—a parody of several practices of "exegetical grammar," including translation, "dictiones ethicae" (soliloquies), paraphrase, and moral interpretation. The purpose of the parody is "to consider, and to reject, the uses of grammar for poetry."
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations