Effigies of Power: Pitt and Fox as Canterbury Pilgrims
- Author / Editor
- Reisner, M. E.
Effigies of Power: Pitt and Fox as Canterbury Pilgrims
- Published
- Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1979): 481-503.
- Description
- Blake's portraits of the Pardoner and Summoner in "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims" bear strong resemblances to contemporary satirical portraits of William Pitt the Younger and Charles James Fox, respectively. The descriptions of the two pilgrims in GP and in their individual tales closely parallel the physical traits, tastes, abilities, and personalities of the historical figures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.