Serious Chaucer: 'The Tale of Melibeus' and the Parson's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Ruggiers, Paul G.
Serious Chaucer: 'The Tale of Melibeus' and the Parson's Tale
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 83-94.
- Description
- Chaucer gives large emphasis and exaggerated length to the didactic. Mel and ParsT are so solidly "there" in the structure of CT that we would not understand the dynamics of the poem if we did not take them into account. Chaucer vies with Dante in making materials inimical to poetry the large stepping stones across which we walk more confidently into the poem as a whole.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Parson and His Tale.