Chaucer's Monk: The Poetics of Abbreviation, Aggression, and Tragedy
- Author / Editor
- Ramazani, Jahan.
Chaucer's Monk: The Poetics of Abbreviation, Aggression, and Tragedy
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 260-76.
- Description
- The Monk (who, alone among the pilgrims, discusses both meter and genre at length) with his hundred tragedies can be viewed as a "rival poet" whose "imaginative narrowness," "verbal repetition," "tiresome" syntax, and encapsulated world view stand in marked contrast to Chaucer's own.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.