Leigh Hunt's 'Canterbury Tale.'
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, James D.
Leigh Hunt's 'Canterbury Tale.'
- Published
- English Language Notes 38: 41-49, 2001.
- Description
- Leigh Hunt's "The Tapiser's Tale" amplifies our understanding of Hunt as a nineteenth-century Chaucerian. The poem both imitates Chaucer's language and verse and utilizes the setting, plot, and key motifs from Charles MacFarlane's account of Mandeville's "Travels." Hunt heightens the pathos of his poem and frames it within CT by focusing on the perspective of a Chaucerian pilgrim, the Tapiser.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.