More on Blake's 'Auguries'

Author / Editor
Gourlay, Alexander S.

Title
More on Blake's 'Auguries'

Published
N&Q 256 (2011): 522-23..

Description
In the context of the biblical passages alluded to in a couplet evoking "gem-encrusted plows," it is worth noting that in Blake's depiction of the Canterbury Pilgrims, "he represented the Plowman as a medieval version of himself."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion