Chaucer's Point of View as Narrator in the Love Poems.
- Author / Editor
- Bethurum, Dorothy.
Chaucer's Point of View as Narrator in the Love Poems.
- Published
- PMLA 74 (1959): 511-20.
- Description
- Traces developments in Chaucer's "attitude to love" as reflected in his narrative personae in BD, LGWP, PF, HF, and TC, assessing this attitude in light of the courtly, Chartrian, and neo-Platonic standards of works by Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Machaut, and others, and arguing that Chaucer deeply appreciated the world and love in the world, even though he accepted their subordination to divine standards which requires humans to strive beyond their limitations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde