The Artistic and Interpretive Context of Blake's 'Canterbury Pilgrims'
- Author / Editor
- Bowden, Betsy.
The Artistic and Interpretive Context of Blake's 'Canterbury Pilgrims'
- Published
- Blake 13 (1980): 164-90.
- Description
- In his paintings of the Canterbury pilgrims, Blake shows the influence of previous illustrations for and commentary upon CT, but goes beyond the artistic and textual tradition to set the group of pilgrims in his own Blakean cosmos, pairing characters against each other as opposites--e.g., Parson and Pardoner--to produce both visual and spiritual symmetry in a complex system of binary relationship.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.