The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation.

Author/Editor
Bennett, J. A. W.

Title
The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation.

Published
Bennett, J. A. W. The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Reprinted with corrections, 1965, 1971, pp. 9, 34, 44, 102, 138-39, 165, 182, 187, 195n, 197n, 198n, 206, 208.

Review
Discusses aspects of CB and CA as analogues and contrasts to Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls”; argues that PF and CA were mutually influential poems, in that they were made at approximately the same time, are concerned with dream allegory, and treat love as a central theme.

Date
1957

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Influence and Later Allusion
Confessio Amantis
Cinkante Balades