The Dreamer Again in "The Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Baker, Donald C.

Title
The Dreamer Again in "The Book of the Duchess."

Published
PMLA 70 (1955): 279-82.

Description
Explores and explains rhetorical emphases in the narrator's growth in understanding of the Black Knight's loss in BD, arguing that full realization comes (in ll. 1309-10) only after it "had been subordinated first by confusion and then by admiration."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Style and Versification