The 'Firste Stok' in Chaucer's 'Gentilesse': Barking up the Right Tree

Author / Editor
Allen, Valerie.

Title
The 'Firste Stok' in Chaucer's 'Gentilesse': Barking up the Right Tree

Published
Review of English Studies, n.s., 40 (1989): 531-37.

Description
The "first stok" of Gent 1 refers to God as the father of "gentilesse" of Gent 8, to Christ as its exemplar and model. The genealogical image operates as metaphor, pun, and paradox in the poem.

Chaucer Subjects
Gentilesse.