Chaucer and Absalom and Architophel
- Author / Editor
- Berry, Reginald.
Chaucer and Absalom and Architophel
- Published
- Notes and Queries 224 (1979): 522-23.
- Description
- The discovery of Dryden's indebtedness to Chaucer (TC, V, 817: "That Paradis stood formed in hire yen") for a line in "Absalom" ("And 'Paradise' was open'd in his face") is attributed in the California edition of Dryden's works to an article published in 1943. In fact, the indebtedness was noted much earlier--in 1720 by George Sewell.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.