Chaucer's Millers and Their Bagpipes.

Author / Editor
Block, Edward A.

Title
Chaucer's Millers and Their Bagpipes.

Published
Speculum 29 (1954) 239-43.

Description
Provides historical background for Chaucer's associations of millers with bagpipes in GP 1.565 and in RvT 1.3927, assessing them as an important characterizing details--vivid, realistic, appropriate, and symbolically suggestive of lechery and gluttony.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale