The Canon's Yeoman's Desperate Confession
- Author / Editor
- Ryan, Lawrence V.
The Canon's Yeoman's Desperate Confession
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 297-310.
- Description
- Argues that the "ritual outlined in the confessional manuals" underlies the depiction of the Canon's Yeoman's "psychological predicament." Still attracted to alchemy and disguising the connection between his Canon and the canon of his tale, the Canon's Yeoman fails to "reject completely his habit of sin" because of his fear of hell and his "spiritual benumbing."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale