Imagery and Structure in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Baker, Donald C.

Title
Imagery and Structure in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Published
Studia Neophilologica 30 (1958): 17-26.

Description
Demonstrates "the extremely close dove-tailing of the three major sections" of BD "and the way in which they complement and illuminate one another" through parallel incidents and atmosphere. Then examines "the imagery patterns in the poem" to show "how the poet employs imagery and symbol to carry the elegiac theme and to fuse this theme with the structure of the poem."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Style and Versification