"Litle herd gromes piping in the wind": "The Shepheardes Calender," "The House of Fame" and "La Compleynt."

Author / Editor
Barr, Helen.

Title
"Litle herd gromes piping in the wind": "The Shepheardes Calender," "The House of Fame" and "La Compleynt."

Published
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 37-59.

Description
Close reading of lines 33-41 (and E. K.'s commentary) of the February eclogue of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender" exemplifies the "truancy of literary resonance" and discloses resonant intertextual play among the comic variety of HF, the monovocality of the anonymous lyric "La Compleynt," E. K.'s commentary, the eclogues themselves, and Spenser’' literary ambitions.

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
House of Fame