Fruyt and Chaf: Studies in Chaucer’s Allegories.

Author / Editor
Huppé, Bernard F., and D. W. Robertson Jr.

Title
Fruyt and Chaf: Studies in Chaucer’s Allegories.

Published
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Physical Description
vii, 157 pp.

Description
Interprets BD and PF as allegories, offering "An Approach to Medieval Poetry" (pp. 3-31) as an introduction to exegetical or patristic criticism and a justification of the method. Explores the imagery, structures, ironic juxtapositions, and meanings of the two poems as, respectively, Christian consolation and a Christian alternative to worldly love.

Contributor
Robertson, D. W., Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls