Boethius and Chaucer: The Consolations of "Trouthe."

Description: Argues that Chaucer anticipates readings of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" as centrally devotional rather than philosophical. Chaucer's word choices in Bo bring this emphasis to the fore, especially of the concluding lines of the work. Examines Chaucer's Boethian poems, eschewing the well-known pagan narrative Boethian poetry for the less-studied Christian poetry such as Truth and Form Age.