Chaucer's Eagles and Their Choices on February 14.

Author/Editor
Stillwell, Gardiner.

Title
Chaucer's Eagles and Their Choices on February 14.

Published
Stillwell, Gardiner. "Chaucer's Eagles and Their Choices on February 14." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 53 (1954): 546-61, especially 553.

Review
Assesses how properly courtly (and hence how comic) are the eagles in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls"; compares this with CB 34 and 35, which are about Valentine's Day, and use bird imagery. [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1954

Gower Subjects
Cinkante Balades
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