Chaucer’s Eagle and the Element Air

CHAUCER'S EAGLE AND THE ELEMENT AIR REGINALD BERRY ...et aves caeli portabunt vocem tuam, Et qui habet pennas annuntiahit sententiam. [Ecclesiastes 10: 20I Although Chaucer's Hous of Fame appears in so many ways to have been iconographically inspired, one is surprised that critical and interpretative activity has most often been concerned with the explication of the purely literary and scriptural sources of the poem. An early exception was Rosemond Tuve,1 who, in relating it to a poem by Guillaume de Deguilleville , noted that several manuscripts of Lydgate's translation of Guillaume's P