"A Round Tour of Yvoyre" ("The Book of the Duchess", 946).
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
"A Round Tour of Yvoyre" ("The Book of the Duchess", 946).
- Published
- Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 9.
- Description
- Suggests that the description of Blanche's throat as a round ivory tower may "carry on the idea" of the Duchess being referred to as a "fers," a chess piece, found elsewhere in the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess