Chaucer’s Langland’s Boethius.
- Author / Editor
- Grady, Frank.
Chaucer’s Langland’s Boethius.
- Published
- Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 271-87.
- Description
- Identifies various ways Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" influenced Langland's "Piers Plowman" formally and thematically, and suggests in conclusion that, unlike other late medieval English writers, Langland and Chaucer "are interested in subjecting the wisdom of the 'Consolation' to the pressures of the world as it can be represented in fiction." Also suggests that Langland's work may have been the "catalyst" of Chaucer in this regard.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations