Chaucer's Clerk of Oxford: Prototype for Prufrock?

Author / Editor
Perez, Frank.

Title
Chaucer's Clerk of Oxford: Prototype for Prufrock?

Published
Yeats Eliot Review 17.2 (2001): 2-5, 2001.

Description
The Clerk and T. S. Eliot's title character in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" share intellectual interests. In addition, both are "caught" between the external and the internal, both are reluctant to speak, and both speak allusively.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.