Venus's Clerk: Ovid's Amatory Poetry in the Middle Ages.

Author / Editor
Desmond, Marilyn.

Title
Venus's Clerk: Ovid's Amatory Poetry in the Middle Ages.

Published
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 161-73.

Description
Surveys the impact on medieval poetry of Ovid as a love poet, including comments on Chaucer's use of "Ars amatoria" in WBP, where Ovid's "erotic poetics" are "domesticated" and the reception of his poem reaches its "zenith." Central to "Chaucerian poetics," "Heroides" has "left traces throughout" Chaucer's corpus, in TC, LGW, MLT, and HF.

Contributor
Miller, John F., ed.
Newlands, Carole E., ed.

Alternative Title
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Monk and His Tale