Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Lawler, Traugott.

Title
Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales

Published
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 75-90.

Description
Lawler argues that Chaucer privileged simplicity and disapproved of decadence and over-refinement. Lexical examination demonstrates Chaucer's preference for "delicacy," evident most clearly in Griselda of ClT and supported by evidence from KnT and ParsT.

Alternative Title
New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry .

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.