Penance and Poetry in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney [K.]

Title
Penance and Poetry in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
PMLA 93 (1978): 240-47.

Description
"Pace" Allen's and Sayce's ironies, dramatic and symbolic propriety for ParsT require penance, and predict, by the figure of the supper and the Host's unwitting use of Pauline imagery, an eschatological end.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.