Poet Versus Priest: Biblical Narrative and the Balanced Portrait in English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Hamilton, Christopher T.
Poet Versus Priest: Biblical Narrative and the Balanced Portrait in English Literature
- Published
- Christian Scholar's Review 23 (1993): 145-58.
- Description
- Chaucer's and Langland's depictions of clergy are rooted in the "biblical topos of contrastive portraits for emulation and rejection," reflecting the medieval belief that church reform depended on the renewal of the clergy. Chaucer's Parson and Langland's Will counterpoint the poets' vice-ridden clergymen. By the time of Henry Vaughn, poets had come to see themselves as crucial to reform.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.