The Poet's Last Words: Text and Meaning at the End of the Parson's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
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.