Chaucer's "Etas Prima."

Author / Editor
Norton-Smith, J.

Title
Chaucer's "Etas Prima."

Published
Medium Aevum 32 (1963): 117-24.

Description
Interprets Form Age as a topical, even occasional, poem, rather than as a translation from Boethius, investigating its manuscript contexts, identifying echoes from Tibellius, Ovid, Jean de Meun, Eustace Deschamps, and Sted, and arguing that the poem was written late in Chaucer's life in response to his discontent with Richard's rule.

Chaucer Subjects
Former Age
Lak of Stedfastnesse
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Life