"For I hadde red of Affrycan byforn": Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" and Chaucer's Early Dream Visions.
- Author / Editor
- Shonk, Timothy A.
"For I hadde red of Affrycan byforn": Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" and Chaucer's Early Dream Visions.
- Published
- Nancy van Deusen, ed. Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries (Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 85-121.
- Description
- Argues that Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" "had a much greater impact" on BD, PF, and especially HF than is usually acknowledged, showing that Cicero's themes and imagery permeate Chaucer's works and dominate his literary imagination for "some ten years." Also comments on the relative chronology of the three Chaucerian works.
- Alternative Title
- Cicero Refused to Die
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame