Covetousness, "Unkyndeness," and the "Blered" Eye in "Piers Plowman" and "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Author / Editor
Bennett, Alastair.

Title
Covetousness, "Unkyndeness," and the "Blered" Eye in "Piers Plowman" and "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Published
Yearbook of Langland Studies 28 (2014): 29-64.

Description
Shows that the "blered" eye image in CYT (7.730) and "Piers Plowman" indicates covetousness, associated with "unkynde" or unnatural separation from community and knowledge.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations