Leigh Hunt's 'Canterbury Tale.'

Author / Editor
Johnson, James D.

Title
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.