Chaucer's Pilgrims: The Artistic Order of the Portraits in the Prologue.
- Author / Editor
- Brooks, Harold Fletcher.
Chaucer's Pilgrims: The Artistic Order of the Portraits in the Prologue.
- Published
- London: Methuen; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
- Physical Description
- 64 pp.
- Description
- Assesses the aesthetic success of the techniques and devices used to characterize and arrange the pilgrims in GP, treating them in "five successive groups" and commenting on degrees of naturalism, pairings, significant details, and various "gamuts in tone and humour and satire," from the "purely typical to the much more individualized," also tracing patterns from high to low in moral and social standing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification