Chaucer and the Medieval Amorous Complaint: A Study in the Evolution of a Poetic Genre.
- Author / Editor
- Chiarenza, Frank John.
Chaucer and the Medieval Amorous Complaint: A Study in the Evolution of a Poetic Genre.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 1956. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.05 (1970): 2337A.
- Description
- Traces the "forms of amorous lyric complaints" from antiquity to the European mid fourteenth century, and then assesses Chaucer's "use of the 'complaint d'amour' both as independent lyrics" and as "interpolated poems" in longer works, focusing on Chaucer's innovations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Lyrics and Short Poems
Style and Versification