Of Leeks and Old Men: Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
Of Leeks and Old Men: Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 70 (1998): 35-39.
- Description
- RvP is a psychological study of the bitterness and frustrations of old age, as well as a quiting of the Miller. Chaucer borrowed the leek-old age simile from Boccaccio's Decameron and adapted it to his own purpose. The simile is not proverbial.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.