Instructional Poetry for Medieval Children
- Author / Editor
- Harris, A. Leslie.
Instructional Poetry for Medieval Children
- Published
- English Studies 74 (1993): 124-32.
- Description
- Late-medieval instructional poetry presents children as adults saw them and with adults' worries about them. In late-medieval narrative poetry, children are almost entirely absent, apart from a few exceptions such as the Pearl-maiden, the clergeon of PrT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.