Chaucer and Eliot: The Poetics of Pilgrimage

Author / Editor
Evans, Dansby.

Title
Chaucer and Eliot: The Poetics of Pilgrimage

Published
Medieval Perspectives 9 (1994): 41-47.

Description
Similarities in the depiction of character, in the pilgrimage topos, and in the reworking of source material suggest Chaucer's influence on "The Waste Land." Evans explores Eliot's academic and scholarly familiarity with Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.