Penance as Poetry in the Late Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Wall, John.
Penance as Poetry in the Late Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson, eds. Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), pp. 179-91.
- Description
- Examines penance in poems of the "Pearl" MS, "Piers Plowman," and CT. Neither a collection of disparate stories nor an illustration of one theme, CT reflects the "quarternity or reality" in which penance, though not the chief theme, is yet a "dynamic element." GP, ParsT, and Ret are pivotal.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Parson and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.