Rigor and License in Blake's Reading/Painting of the Canterbury Pilgrims
- Author / Editor
- Henderson, Jeff.
Rigor and License in Blake's Reading/Painting of the Canterbury Pilgrims
- Published
- Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 18 (1992): 1-14.
- Description
- William Blake's criticism of GP can best be appreciated by considering his painting, Sir Jeffrey Chaucer and the Nine and Twenty Pilgrims on Their Journey to Canterbury, and his smaller engraving of the same subject. Blake's images, though apparently similar, offer two different allegorical readings: the painting interprets the pilgrims' journey as a eucharistic allegory, while the engraving offers a more worldly depiction of the travelers' mirth.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.