The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower's "Cronica tripertita."
- Author/Editor
- Weiskott, Eric.
- Title
- The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower's "Cronica tripertita."
- Published
- Weiskott, Eric. "The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower's 'Cronica tripertita'." ANQ: American Notes and Queries 36 (2023): 319-20.
- Review
- Weiskott identifies a dual-purposed pun on "Aquilonica" as referencing both "aquilo" (Henry IV's nickname) and "aquila" ("north," i.e., Ravenspur where he landed to begin his conquest of England) in the couplet (Cronica Tripertita 3. 142-43): "Vela petunt portum quem sors prope contulit ortum; Vt dux concepit, Aquilonica littora cepit." ["To fated eastern port by sail they hasten forth; The duke, as he had planned, made landfall in the North."] (319). "The allusive, compressed effect of the double hidden reference in 'aquilonica' argued for in the present note was entirely in keeping with the allusive, compressed style of Gower's composition" (320). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 43.2]
- Date
- 2023
- Gower Subjects
- Cronica Tripertita
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification