Tuve, Rosemond
Seasons and Months. Studies in a Tradition of Middle English Poetry
Cambridge / Totowa, D.S. Brewer / Rowman, (1974). Reprint, orig.boards. 22x14cm, 232 pp, In a rubbed & soiled dustwrapper.. Slight corner bumps, some rubbing & page-edge soil, VG.
¶ A facsimile reprint of the 1933 edition.Contents: The Classical Tradition: Its Analogues & Influences: Venus and Natura; The Georgic Tradition; The Eclogue Tradition; The Ovidian Tradition; Conclusions: The Goliardic Songs;The Encyclopaedic & Artistic Tradition as Distinguished from that of Old French Courtly Poetry; The Fusion of Traditions in Chaucer; The Artistic Tradition & Non-Chaucerian Descriptions of the Seasons in English; Chaucer.

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Keywords: Medieval Poetry, Middle English, Comparative, Literature, Literary motif, Seasons, Months, ,