Was Chaucer's Merchant in Debt? A Study in Chaucerian Syntax and Rhetoric.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Oscar E.
Was Chaucer's Merchant in Debt? A Study in Chaucerian Syntax and Rhetoric.
- Published
- JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 52 (1953): 50–57.
- Description
- Explicates the claim about debt in the description of the Merchant (GP 1.280), arguing on logical and metrical grounds--and using comparable lines from elsewhere in Chaucer (especially TC 3.267-70)--that the Merchant was not "insolvent," i.e., "he was decidedly not in debt."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
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