The Style of the 'Clerk's Tale' and the Function of Its Glosses

Author / Editor
Farrell, Thomas J.

Title
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.