On the Pleasure of Meeting Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Chute, Marchette.

Title
On the Pleasure of Meeting Chaucer.

Published
English Journal 45 (1956): 373-80, 394.

Description
Appreciative criticism of CT, particularly Chaucer's realism, stylistic variety, and deft characterization, including that of his own persona. Comments on his life and language and on the appropriateness of individual tales to their tellers. Reads PrT as a "weapon" to help in the destruction of ignorance.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General
Prioress and Her Tale