Chaucer's Wife of Midas Reconsidered: Oppositions and Poetic Judgment in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Pelen, Marc M.
Chaucer's Wife of Midas Reconsidered: Oppositions and Poetic Judgment in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Florilegium 13 (1994): 141-60.
- Description
- The interpolated story of Midas's wife evokes Ovidian concern with poetic judgment and suggests Chaucer's perspective on the differing attitudes of the hag and the knight toward love and marriage. Complex Ovidian echoes imply the failure of Midas's wife to understand the significance of his preference for Pan's music over Apollo's, and, by extension, the Wife's failure to acknowledge a more cosmic view of love and poetry than the purely experiential one she espouses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.