The Poet's Last Words: Text and Meaning at the End of the Parson's Prologue

Author / Editor
Brown, Emerson,Jr.

Title
The Poet's Last Words: Text and Meaning at the End of the Parson's Prologue

Published
Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 236-42.

Description
Manly's reordering of the final lines of ParsP in his 1928 edition is contested by manuscript evidence, Chaucer's general usage of pronouns, and the intelligibility and literary excellence of the original version.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.