‘O Lady Fortune’: An Unknown Lyric In British Library Ms Harley 2169

Moll criticizes Harley's poem "Fortune." The Harley poem is in the form of a dialogue between a plaintiff and Lady Fortune herself. The poem is a traditional complaint against Fortune and shares not only a theme, but even some vocabulary with Chaucer's 'Fortune', but th...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2009-06, Vol.56 (2), p.192-194
Main Author: Moll, Richard J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Literary criticism
Poetry
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Summary:Moll criticizes Harley's poem "Fortune." The Harley poem is in the form of a dialogue between a plaintiff and Lady Fortune herself. The poem is a traditional complaint against Fortune and shares not only a theme, but even some vocabulary with Chaucer's 'Fortune', but this vocabulary ('worshippe', 'avaunce', 'variaunce'), is conventional in a poem on Fortune and probably does not indicate direct borrowing.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjp036