The Epic
- Author / Editor
- Bloom, Harold.
The Epic
- Published
- Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 266 pp.
- Description
- Appreciative commentary on nineteen major works of literature, from Genesis to T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The section on Chaucer (pp. 69-83) focuses on critical attitudes toward his comedy, irony, and rhetoric, and assesses the "implied realization" of KnT (acceptance of suffering) and the "unconscious death drive" reflected in PardT.
- Contributor
- Kelly, David.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Style and Versification