The “Consolatio” Genre in Medieval English Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Means, Michael.
- Title
- The “Consolatio” Genre in Medieval English Literature.
- Published
- Means, Michael. The “Consolatio” Genre in Medieval English Literature. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1972, pp. 59-65. Revised lightly from the author’s Ph.D. Dissertation of similar title: The “Consolatio” Genre in Middle English Literature University of Florida, Gainesville, 1963.
- Review
- Treats CA example of a “consolatio” that combines features of the “purer” form of Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” and the “fragmented” form found in the “Roman de la Rose.” Focuses on the characterization of Genius and the “digressions” in CA. [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1972
1963
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis