The Figure of the Pilgrim in Medieval Poetry

Author / Editor
Holloway, Julia Bolton.

Title
The Figure of the Pilgrim in Medieval Poetry

Published
DAI 35.04 (1974): 2225-26A.

Description
Compares and contrasts CT, Dante's "Divine Comedy," and Langland's "Piers Plowman" as pilgrimage narratives, particularly their emphasis on the poet as pilgrim and movement toward salvation as structure.

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