The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart: Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal.

Author / Editor
Figg, Kristen Mossler.

Title
The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart: Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal.

Published
New York and London: Garland, 1994.

Physical Description
ix, 293 pp.

Description
Assesses the nature and quality of Froissart's short poems: lays, chansons royales, pastourelles, ballades, virelays, and rondeaux, providing texts and commentary. The Introduction includes a survey of scholarship about Froissart's influence on Chaucer, and comments further about his possible influence on Chaucer's verse and style.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification