Poet and Peasant.

Author / Editor
White, Beatrice.

Title
Poet and Peasant.

Published
In F. R. H. Du Boulay and Caroline M. Barron, eds. The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack (London: Athlone, 1971), pp. 58-74.

Description
Surveys a wide range of representations of peasants and links with poverty in medieval poetry, with particular emphasis on works by Langland, Chaucer, and Gower, as well as a number of their near-contemporaries. Contrasts Langland's Piers with Chaucer's Plowman as "spiritual experience" and "correct rhetorical exercise, too good to be true," respectively, and comments on peasantry and poverty in NPT, FrT, ClT, MLP, and WBT.

Contributor
Du Boulay, F. R. H., ed.
Barron, Caroline M., ed.

Alternative Title
The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales--General