The Meaning of "The Parlement of Foulys."
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Stephen.
The Meaning of "The Parlement of Foulys."
- Published
- Southern Review 2.3 (1967): 223-39.
- Description
- Argues that PF is "much more critical of human life than has been thought [and] that it finally adopts and orthodox Christian Position." Explores how the structure, details, and style of the poem undermine the narrator's views and work "to suggest, to hint, and to disturb and rouse the reader," communicating ironically the need for Christian community and for the contemptuus mundi articulated in the poem's opening summary of the "Somnium Scipionis."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
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