'Than Longen Folkes to Goon on Pilgrimages': A Meditation on Pilgrimage and Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Corn, Alfred.
'Than Longen Folkes to Goon on Pilgrimages': A Meditation on Pilgrimage and Poetry
- Published
- Contemporary Poetry Review n.v. (Feb. 2004): n.p. [Available electronically.]
- Description
- Personal account that assesses several influential pilgrimage/travel narratives, including Homer's "Odyssey," Dante's "Divine Comedy," and CT, with comments on Chaucer's narrator, his debt to Dante, intertextuality, and the experience of reading GP in Bodleian MS 686. Revised as "Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages: Poetry and Travel," in Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. 146-73.
- Alternative Title
- "Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages: Poetry and Travel."
- Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies