Chaucer's "Secree of Secrees": An Alchemical "Topic."
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
Chaucer's "Secree of Secrees": An Alchemical "Topic."
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 42 (1963): 562-66.
- Description
- Shows that the phrase "secree of secrees" in CYT 8.1447, cast as a "superlative genitive," suggests a "whole class of alchemical expressions identical in form" and thereby "sharply emphasizes Chaucer's ironical denunciation of the oracular pretensions of alchemical philosophers."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies