'Up roos oure Hoost, and was oure aller cok': Harry Bailly's Tale-Telling Competition
- Author / Editor
- Scheps, Walter.
'Up roos oure Hoost, and was oure aller cok': Harry Bailly's Tale-Telling Competition
- Published
- Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 113-28.
- Description
- Internal evidence about Harry Bailly's literary aesthetic suggests that he would have chosen the Nun's Priest as the winner of the "soper" at the Tabard. The priest's "sentence," "solaas," conviviality, and obvious masculinity are the deciding factors.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.