“…In the former, a temporal relationship between prior texts and subsequent texts is assumed which perceives the earlier text as a source for the construction of the later text. For example, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess has been read as constructed of material from earlier sources: Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy, the Roman de la Rose, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Froissart's Dit dou Bleu Chevalier, among others (Cherniss 1969, Crane 1992, Hardman 1990, Findlayson 1990). In the latter, "inspiration," which is perhaps best represented by T. S.…”