"Eros" and Pilgrimage in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Kowalik, Barbara.
"Eros" and Pilgrimage in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Poetry.
- Published
- Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 3 (2013): 27-41.
- Description
- Discusses "erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage" in the opening of GP and in Shakespeare's Sonnets, reading Chaucer's lines 1–18 closely as a kind of sonnet and observing numerological patterns that reinforce a transition from erotic desire to religious devotion. Shakespeare, in contrast, uses religious pilgrimage to evoke motion toward his beloved.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification