The Style of the 'Clerk's Tale' and the Function of Its Glosses
- Author / Editor
- Farrell, Thomas J.
The Style of the 'Clerk's Tale' and the Function of Its Glosses
- Published
- Studies in Philology 86 (1989): 286-309.
- Description
- Whether or not Chaucerian, the glosses reveal medieval responses to ClT; they emphasize the introduction of important thematic material and highlight the difference between the Clerk's restrained rhetoric and the ornate style of Petrarch's 'Seniles' 17.3.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.