The Sources of Chaucer's Summoner's "Garleek, Onyons, and eek Lekes."
- Author/Editor
- Wood, Chauncey.
- Title
- The Sources of Chaucer's Summoner's "Garleek, Onyons, and eek Lekes."
- Published
- Wood, Chauncey. "The Sources of Chaucer's Summoner's 'Garleek, Onyons, and eek Lekes'." Chaucer Review 5.3 (1971): 240-44.
- Review
- Citing previous studies by W. C. Curry, R. E. Kaske, and T. J. Garbáty, Wood connects the Summoner's skin disease and fondness for garlic, onions, and leeks with Numbers 11: 5 (240), but suggests that perhaps Chaucer borrowed not directly from the Vulgate, but instead from Gower ("Vox Clamantis" III. 85-90), and/or Gower's own source, Peter Riga, "Aurora," Numeri 215-22 (241-42). "We may also note," he concludes, "Chaucer departs from Gower's method by changing an abstract 'exemplum' . . . into a more rounded literary figure, thus almost completely Gower's procedure, which was to concentrate on the spiritual implications of his images rather than on the surface details of the images themselves" (243). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 1971
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis