The "Canon's Yeoman's Tale:" Boethian Wisdom and the Alchemists.
- Author / Editor
- Grenberg, Bruce L.
The "Canon's Yeoman's Tale:" Boethian Wisdom and the Alchemists.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 1.1 (1966): 37-54.
- Description
- Argues that the concern with the "basic duality between material and spiritual values" in CYPT is based in Boethius's admonitions against pursuing false felicity in his "Consolation of Philosophy," manifested in the Canon's Yeoman's concern with false versus true alchemy. Like Boethius, the Canon's Yeoman advocates pursuing the "perfection of the uncreated good."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations