Chaucer's Pilgrims and Cather's Priests
- Author / Editor
- Stouck, Mary-Ann.
Chaucer's Pilgrims and Cather's Priests
- Published
- Colby Library Quarterly 0.10 (1972): 531-37.
- Description
- Argues that the characterizations in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" were influenced by Chaucer's GP descriptions, particularly those of his ecclesiastical characters. The two authors also share a tendency to avoid rigid schemata of vice and virtue.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion