Convention and Individuality in Chaucer's "Complaint of Mars."
- Author / Editor
- Stillwell, Gardiner.
Convention and Individuality in Chaucer's "Complaint of Mars."
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 35 (1956): 69-89.
- Description
- Compares Mars with the "Ovide moralisé" and examines its adaptations of the "aubade, the complaint, the Valentine-tradition (Gower and Graunson), and the conventions of courtly love"--as inflected by Chaucer's own concerns and "personality," and "expressing an attitude toward young lovers": "now joy, now sorrow, always fascination to see their 'busynesse' . . . amusing or pathetic or both together in basing their lives on so unstable a foundation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations