Chaucer's Merchant and January's "hevene in erthe heere."
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Paul A.
Chaucer's Merchant and January's "hevene in erthe heere."
- Published
- ELH 28 (1961): 203-14.
- Description
- Argues that in MerT "January's love of May reflects, in heightened colors," the Merchant's own "commercial love of the world's goods." Explores the possessive nature of January's love of May, focusing on the Merchant's metaphors and references to Boethius, the Bible, St. Jerome, and classical literature, maintaining that, through such material, Chaucer "is able to illuminate the inner fragility" of the Merchant's commercial world.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations