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Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery
By (Author) Chauncey Wood
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.109
Hardback
374
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
680g
Professor Wood examines in detail the astrological references in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Complaint of Mars, using mediaeval source materials not only to elucidate the technicalities of the imagery but also to analyze its poetic function. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o