These characters are joined by bearers of false tidings but, then, after the appearance of "A Man of Gret Autorite," who many scholars presume to be Boethius, Book Three abruptly cuts off.
After the poet enters the title structure, Eolus blows a trumpet and summons forth personages from classical and biblical lore. These characters are joined by bearers of false tidings but, then, after the appearance of "A Man of Gret Autorite," who many scholars presume to be Boethius, Book Three abruptly cuts off. The poem begins after an invocation to the God of Sleep and a vision of Dido and Aeneas in a Temple of Glass. But it is the Second Book of this octosyllabic work, where the poet rides an eagle, that, FTP, directly addresses the goddess of Celebrity or Rumour, whose abode titles this unfinished poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
After the poet enters the title structure, Eolus blows a trumpet and summons forth personages from classical and biblical lore.
The House of Fame