The Floure and the Leafe and The Assembly of Ladies.
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, D[erek] A., ed.
The Floure and the Leafe and The Assembly of Ladies.
- Published
- London: Nelson, 1962.
- Physical Description
- viii, 191 pp.
- Series
- Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library.
- Description
- Edits these two examples of Chaucerian apocrypha, with introduction, textual and critical notes, glossary, and bibliography, observing that the "only reason for the attribution" to Chaucer is "their inclusion in the sixteenth-century collected editions of Chaucer," commenting on the lack of external evidence, and showing that "the internal evidence of language, rhyme, and metre . . . is all against" such an attribution. Identifies Chaucerian echoes in the poem and describes the history of the attribution in various printed editions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion