Chaucer's "O Sentence" in the "Hous of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Stillwell, Gardiner.
Chaucer's "O Sentence" in the "Hous of Fame."
- Published
- English Studies 37 (1956): 149-57.
- Description
- Maintains that Chaucer indicates that there is a "single theme" in HF, arguing that "Distrust of worldly felicity . . . is Chaucer's 'o sentence'," and hypothesizing that the poem "was written for a New Year's entertainment." Cites several contemporaneous poems that associate the New Year with "general optimism," which Chaucer treats ironically in HF.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame