Sir Topas, 772-774.

Author / Editor
Donovan, Mortimer J.

Title
Sir Topas, 772-774.

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 57 (1956): 237-46.

Description
Explores Chaucer's association between love-longing and the song-thrush in Th 7.772-74, clarifying the significance of the bird in patristic commentary, bestiaries, and poetic tradition, and suggesting that it may indicate that Thopas's passion for the elf-queen is both absurd and carnal.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas