They Tell of Birds: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton.
- Author / Editor
- Harrison, Thomas P
They Tell of Birds: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton.
- Published
- Austin: University of Texas, 1956.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 159 pp.; 12 b&w and 1 color illus.
- Description
- Describes birds mentioned by four English poets, one chapter apiece. An opening chapter surveys classical backgrounds for zoological and interpretive ornithology, along with the uses of birds in medieval encyclopedias. The Chaucer chapter addresses bird-lists and birds in Rom, PF, and NPT, with attention to sources, moral implications of bird imagery, and Chaucer’s development as an artist. Includes an Index to Birds Named by Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Drayton.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Romaunt of the Rose
Parliament of Fowls
Nun's Priest and His Tale