William Blake as an Intellectual and Spiritual Guide to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Pilgrims'

Author / Editor
Kiralis, Karl.

Title
William Blake as an Intellectual and Spiritual Guide to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Pilgrims'

Published
Blake Studies 1.2 (1969): 139-90; 5 b&w figs.

Description
Describes and assesses Blake's understanding of Chaucer and his Canterbury pilgrims, and surmises (in Appendix A) that Blake used Tyrwhitt's edition of CT. Includes reproductions of Blake's engraving of Chaucer's Pilgrims and of Thomas Stothard's "The Procession of Chaucer's Pilgrims to Canterbury." Correspondence in Blake Studies 2.2 (1970), pp. 63-66, offers additions and suggestions by Geoffrey Keynes and Joseph Holland.

Contributor
Keynes, Geoffrey.
Holland, Joseph.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General
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