Chaucer's Love Visions, with Particular Reference to the "Parliament of Fowls."
- Author / Editor
- Everett, Dorothy.
Chaucer's Love Visions, with Particular Reference to the "Parliament of Fowls."
- Published
- Essays on Middle English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), pp. 97-114.
- Description
- Assesses the conventionality and originality of PF in form or genre, matter, and rhetorical style, arguing that the poem is a "delicately ironical fantasy on the theme of love," both courtly and natural, presented largely through a "series of contrasts" (rhetorical "contentio"). Clarifies how Chaucer's adaptations of his sources leads up to the parliament of birds, itself a convention which he adapts from French love vision poetry and fuses with Latin and Italianate materials.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification