Chaucer: The Poet as Ploughman
- Author / Editor
- Hardwick, Paul.
Chaucer: The Poet as Ploughman
- Published
- Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 146-56.
- Description
- If the Parson represents the Church, the Ploughman represents lay piety in brotherhood with the Church. This is how Chaucer perceives the poet's role: as a "'trewe swynkere,' working 'for Cristes sake, for every povre wight' in accordance with the exemplary model provided by the Church."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.