William Blake and Westminster Abbey

Author / Editor
Reisner, M. E.

Title
William Blake and Westminster Abbey

Published
Roger L. Emerson, Gilles Girard, and Roseann Runte, eds. Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 1 (London, Ontario: Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, 1982), pp. 185-98.

Description
Demonstrates that details of dress in William Blake's "Canterbury Pilgrims" derive from the monuments in Westminster Abbey. Focuses on Blake's depictions the Pardoner, Prioress, and Wife of Bath.

Contributor
Emerson, Roger L., ed
Girard, Gilles, ed.
Runte, Roseann, ed.

Alternative Title
Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 1

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Pardoner and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale