Chaucer's Pilgrims as Artists

Author / Editor
Cannon, Thomas F., Jr.

Title
Chaucer's Pilgrims as Artists

Published
DAI 34.07 (1974): 4190-91A.

Description
Gauges the performances of the Canterbury pilgrims by their relative balance between self-will and common will, basing the distinction on patristic notions of pilgrimage and successful progress toward God, as well as Horace's aesthetic criteria of teaching and delight.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations