The Persistence of Donaldson's Memory

Author / Editor
Farrell, Thomas J.

Title
The Persistence of Donaldson's Memory

Published
ChauR 41 (2007): 289-97.

Description
Despite their diverse emphases, critical responses to the Monk's portrait in GP evince the same "close reading instinct" that generated E. Talbot Donaldson's "Chaucer the Pilgrim" essay and that has persisted "in an almost universal unwillingness . . . to read the Prologue straight."

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.