Blake and Chaucer : 'Infinite Variety of Character'
- Author / Editor
- Pace, Claire.
Blake and Chaucer : 'Infinite Variety of Character'
- Published
- Art History 3 (1980): 388-409.
- Description
- Examines William Blake's painting of the Canterbury pilgrims for its artistic value and its place in the history of taste. Blake's "Descriptive Catalog," which accompanied the first exhibition of the painting, and his "Prospectus" for a subsequent engraving of the pilgrims reflect his views on characterization and his admiration of Chaucer.
- Pace surveys pictorial depictions of Chaucerian materials before Blake and comments on the rise of Chaucer's popularity in the eighteenth century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.