Chaucer's use of proverbs
By: by Bartlett Jere Whiting.
Series: Harvard studies in comparative literature.; vol. XI
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1934
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Knowledge -- Folklore; Deschamps, Eustache, 1346?-1406; Gower, John, 1325?-1408; Proverbs in literature; Aphorisms and apothegms; Literature, Comparative -- English and French; Literature, Comparative -- French and English; French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
Notes: "Notes": p. [195]-203.
"This book was a section of my doctoral dissertation [Harvard University, 1932]"--p. ix.
"Chaucer's usage is compared with that of other writers of his time or before, and appendices contain the proverbial material, or references to it, in the fabliaux, the works of Eustache Deschamps, and the French and English works of John Gower."--Pref.