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Nashe's "Choise" and Chaucer's Pardoner.(parallels between Thomas Nashe's poem, 'The Choise of Valentines' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale')

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From: ANQ
Date: 19960922
Author:Evans, Robert C.

'The Choise of Valentines,' an erotic poem by English Renaissance poet Thomas Nashe, exhibits many parallels of language and setting with Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale.' The two works open in similar fashion using similar phrases, for example. Other critics have made comparable connections between Nashe's poem and additional works by Chaucer. Nashe's apparent allusions to Chaucer suggest that the purpose of his poem transcended mere titillation. Nashe may have consciously intended to echo the comical Chaucerian irony he evidently admired.

Although Thomas Nashe's poem "The Cholse of ...

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