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