The Mill in Popular Metaphor from Chaucer to the Present Day
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
The Mill in Popular Metaphor from Chaucer to the Present Day
- Published
- Southern Folklore Quarterly 33 (1969): 69-79.
- Description
- Traces the legacy of the mill as a metaphor for creativity, child-bearing, and sexual activity, drawing examples from WBP (3.384-90), HF (1798-99), and RvT (1.4313-14), among other sources.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- House of Fame
- Reeve and His Tale