The Allegorical Interpretation of Medieval Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Beichner, Paul E.
- Title
- The Allegorical Interpretation of Medieval Literature.
- Published
- Beichner, Paul E. "The Allegorical Interpretation of Medieval Literature." PMLA 82 (1967): 33-38. Reprinted in Helaine Newstead, ed. Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays on Medieval Literature and Thought (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1968), pp. 112-23.
- Review
- Gower used the allegorical account from the "Aurora" of Peter Riga for descriptions of birds in VC as follows: the eagle and the griffin, "Aurora," Lev., 635-42/VC, VI, 985-92; kite, 647-48/V, 101-02; vulture, 655-58/V, 537-40; crow, 659-60/IV, 305-10; ostrich, 667-72/IV,1059-64; owl, 673-76/VI, 95-98; hawk, 683-86/VI, 719-22; screech-owl, 687-94/III, 1693-1700; cormorant, 695-98/III, 1587-90; and bat, 735-40/VI, 89-94. [RFY1981].
- Date
- 1967
- Gower Subjects
- Vox Clamantis
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