Commentary on an Unacknowledged Text: Chaucer's Debt to Langland
- Author / Editor
- Middleton, Anne.
Commentary on an Unacknowledged Text: Chaucer's Debt to Langland
- Published
- YLS 24 (2010): 113-37.
- Description
- Middleton reads the Pardoner materials as Chaucer's "formal and ideational" tribute to Langland's "Piers Plowman"--an embodiment of his appreciation of Langland's struggles with poetic self-representation, the gendered status of the poet, and the poetics of confession. Langland inspired the Pardoner and the penitential ending of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Canterbury Tales--General