A Chaucer Allusion in Edward Du Bois' "Old Nick."
- Author / Editor
- Green, David Bonnell.
A Chaucer Allusion in Edward Du Bois' "Old Nick."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 199 (1954): 417.
- Description
- Identifies an approximate quotation from Chaucer's Pity in Edward Du Bois's satirical novel, "Old Nick" (1801), and suggests that it is "in all probability the first quotation from Chaucer's works in prose fiction."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Complaint unto Pity