Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Deschamps, Eustache | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Burrow, John. “Hoccleve and the Middle French Poets.” In The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray, Eds. Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone. pp. 35-49 Oxford: Claredon Press, 1997.

Includes a consideration of “Ballade 902” as one example among many of Deschamps's supplicant poems that bear similarities to Thomas Hoccleve's pleas for money in Male Regle.

Cropp, Glynis M. “Fortune and the Poet in Ballades of Eustache Deschamps, Charles D'Orleans and Francois Villon.” Medium Aevum 58, no. 1 (spring 1989): 125-132.

Examines the role of the personified figure of Fortune in selected works of the three poets.

Mieszkowski, Gretchen. “‘Pandras’ in Deschamps' Ballade for Chaucer.” The Chaucer Review 9, no. 4 (spring 1975): 327-36.

Discusses “Ballade 285,” in which Deschamps praises Chaucer's translation of Le Roman de la Rose into...

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