‘As Writ Myn Auctour Called Lollius’: Divine and Authorial Omnipotence in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

Abstract

Chaucer’s Lollius has long been regarded by us critics and scholars as a mystery; and, to confess the truth, the thing has become a mystery indeed under our treatment. For in our discussions we have made so many mistakes about plain matters of record, and have emitted so many discordant conjectures, that the whole subject has become entangled to the verge of distraction and is now involved in a kind of druidical mist. Let us try to extricate ourselves from the fogbound labyrinth, and to that end let us examine certain obvious phenomena—for such there are—in an orderly and logical manner, in the light of reason and common sense and of what we know of the habits of literary men.

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