"Blyndes Bestes": Aspects of Chaucer's Animal World.
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
"Blyndes Bestes": Aspects of Chaucer's Animal World.
- Published
- Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 1962. Fully accessible via https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0105748 (accessed April 24, 2026).
- Physical Description
- ii, 288 pp.
- Description
- Explores the sources and meanings of Chaucer's "analogies" between animals and humans, focusing on hares, dogs, horses, wolves, and sheep, arguing that, generally, Chaucer uses them to indicate the need for humans to control their "natural passions."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations