"Tu numeris elementa ligas": The Consolation of Nature's Numbers in "Parlement of Foulys."

Author / Editor
Moseley, C.W. R. D.

Title
"Tu numeris elementa ligas": The Consolation of Nature's Numbers in "Parlement of Foulys."

Published
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 86-113.

Description
Contends that Chaucer is "expecting, indeed exploiting, the gap between the reception of a poem when it is heard socially and its afterlife as a text," when it is a different thing. Argues "that a poem's form is itself a way of communicating ideas."

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls