Jung's Archetype of the Wise Old Man in Poems by Chaucer, Wordsworth, and Browning

Author / Editor
Gill, Richard.

Title
Jung's Archetype of the Wise Old Man in Poems by Chaucer, Wordsworth, and Browning

Published
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2 (1981): 18-32.

Description
Ambiguous old men in English poetry, including the one in PardT, can be illuminated by the psychological archetype of the "wise old man" that Jung describes in "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.