Chaucer's Monk: The Poetics of Abbreviation, Aggression, and Tragedy

Author / Editor
Ramazani, Jahan.

Title
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.