The Storm in the Garden: Literary Nature in "The Floure and the Leafe."

Description: Explores the conventionality/unconventionality of plot, detail, and image in "The Floure and the Leafe," arguing that its depiction of "literary nature" presents "poetry as a shared and participatory tradition: a carefully maintained garden from which to gather the natural and literary resources that can ameliorate damage to both people and the environment." Focuses on the impact of the poem's "weather event" or storm, and comments on allusions
to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucerian Apocrypha
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion