Tradition and Meaning in "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale."

Author / Editor
Lampe, David E.

Title
Tradition and Meaning in "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale."

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 3, summer supplement (1967): 49-62.

Description
Reads "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" as a poem about the power of love and its effects on its lovesick narrator, at points comparing it with works by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and others, observing likely derivations.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion