The Forest in Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess," Ll. 416-426: Echoes of the Nave and Tower of Old St Paul's Cathedral."
- Author / Editor
- Goedhals, John Antony.
The Forest in Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess," Ll. 416-426: Echoes of the Nave and Tower of Old St Paul's Cathedral."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 267 (2022): 10-13.
- Description
- Argues that the forest described in BD, 416-26, is "both topographical and ekphrastic," comparing details of the forest with aspects of Wenceslas Hollar's engravings of the nave of Old St. Paul's Cathedral, reproduced in William Dugdale's history of the cathedral.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Style and Versification