Diverse Melodies in Chaucer's 'General Prologue'

Author / Editor
Higdon, David Leon.

Title
Diverse Melodies in Chaucer's 'General Prologue'

Published
Criticism 14 (1972): 97-108.

Description
Gauges the implications of the wide range of musical images in GP, exploring the exegetical roots of Chaucer's uses of these images, and assessing concord, discord, and silence as indicators of moral approval or censure. Chaucer's uses are not reductionist, but instead "Gothic" in their intricate variety.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales