The Pardoner's 'Baskettes' ('Canterbury Tales' VI, Lines 444-6)
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
The Pardoner's 'Baskettes' ('Canterbury Tales' VI, Lines 444-6)
- Published
- Notes and Queries 230 (1985): 155-56.
- Description
- Three motifs in PardT have antecedents in Virgil's "Eclogue" 10, where basket weaving is a metaphor for making poetry. Rejecting physical labor, the Pardoner asserts "otium," associated with begging. In genre, PardT is a begging poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.