A 'Clerkes Compleinte': Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang. [sic]

Author / Editor
Fitzgerald, Jill.

Title
A 'Clerkes Compleinte': Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang. [sic]

Published
Tolkien Studies 6 (2009): 41-57.

Description
Fitzgerald places Tolkien's essay on RvT (1934) in its intellectual and professional context. She explores the role of Chaucer in Tolkien's scholarship and creative works, including the allusions to Chaucer's works that appear in Tolkien's satiric poem "The Clerkes Compleinte."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Reeve and His Tale