Experience and the Judgement of Poetry : A Reconsideration of 'The Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Morgan, Gerald.
Experience and the Judgement of Poetry : A Reconsideration of 'The Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 70: 204-25, 2001.
- Description
- Positioned midway between aristocracy and the lower orders of society, the Franklin appropriately tells a story that emphasizes the necessity and correctness of the social order as he (and Chaucer) would have understood it. Thus, the Arveragus-Dorigen-Aurelius triangle must be resolved by mutual compromise, and in the case of Arveragus, by severe self-sacrifice that "puts the good of the beloved before one's own good" (220).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.