'A Poet Ther Was': Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Barbara.
'A Poet Ther Was': Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- PMLA 101 (1986): 154-69.
- Description
- Though the antipoetic and devoutly Christian voices of ParsT and Ret conclude CT, Chaucer assumes three voices in GP: a "clerkly" and rhetorically trained voice for the opening, Chaucer the Pilgrim's voice reporting on the group, and Harry Bailly's voice with his mirth- and profit-oriented spiel for the end of GP.
- See Michael Moriarty, "Forum Response to Barbara Nolan's 'Chaucer's Voices'," PMLA 101 (1986): 859-60.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.