To Seek to Distant Shrines: A Syntactical Problem in Chaucer's 'General Prologue,' Lines 12-16
- Author / Editor
- Klassen, Norman.
To Seek to Distant Shrines: A Syntactical Problem in Chaucer's 'General Prologue,' Lines 12-16
- Published
- Modern Philology 111 (2014): 585-92.
- Description
- Placement of a semicolon at the end of GP 1.13, rather than at the end of 1.14 is syntactically correct. The meaning is that both "folk" and "palmeres" wish to go "to ferne halwes."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales