The Poet as Sunday Man: 'The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse'
- Author / Editor
- Finnel, Andrew J.
The Poet as Sunday Man: 'The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8.2 (1973): 147-58.
- Description
- Argues that Purse was written soon after the accession of Henry IV, addressed to the new monarch and composed as Chaucer's plea for funds while he was residing in the close of Westminster Abbey in order to avoid debts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
- Chaucer's Life