The Convention of the Old Man's Lament in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Nitecki, Alicia K.
The Convention of the Old Man's Lament in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 76-84.
- Description
- Although the major sources of the Old Man figure have long been known, the existence of the figure in alliterative and lyric poetry shows how Chaucer transforms the tradition. His Old Man is a trope for man's desire for transcendence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.