History and Form in the General Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Martin, Loy D.
History and Form in the General Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- ELH 45 (1978): 1-17.
- Description
- The form of GP is descended from the genre of the rhetorical catalogue of types, represented in simpler form by the lists of trees and birds in PF. In PF, the garden represents the world of timeless values and the catalogs the earth-bound realities; in GP the pilgrims are dressed according to their callings but located by class and wealth.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Parliament of Fowls.