Tradition and Meaning in "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale."
- Author / Editor
- Lampe, David E.
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