Chaucer's Reeve and St. Paul's Old Man
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Charles R.
Chaucer's Reeve and St. Paul's Old Man
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 101-06.
- Description
- The Reeve's four burning coals ("Avauntyng, liying, anger, covetise" (CT 1.3884) are taken from the description of the spiritual old man in Ephesians 4:22-28.
- They serve to characterize not only the Reeve but also the four main characters in the tale, who, however young, are spiritually old men as well.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.