"Farewel my bok": Paying Attention to Flowers in Chaucer's Prologues to "The Legend of Good Women."
- Author / Editor
- Rudd, Gillian.
"Farewel my bok": Paying Attention to Flowers in Chaucer's Prologues to "The Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- Postmedieval 9 (2018): 410-19.
- Description
- Notes that Chaucer's treatment of the daisy in LGW differs from his typical use of flower imagery. Recognizes parallels between the daisy in LGW and its narrator Geffrey, notes differences between the narrator(s) of the F prologue and the G prologue, and considers the relationship between Alceste and the daisy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women