The Rival 'Canterbury Pilgrims' of Blake and Cromek: Herculean Figures in the Carpet

Author / Editor
Read, Dennis M.

Title
The Rival 'Canterbury Pilgrims' of Blake and Cromek: Herculean Figures in the Carpet

Published
Modern Philology 86 (1988): 171-90.

Description
The idea for the artistic representation of the Canterbury pilgrims was that of Robert Hartley Cromek, Blake's enemy. Few preferred Blake's paintings over Cromek's engravings.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.