Chaucer's Dead Body by Prendergast Thomas A.;

Author:Prendergast, Thomas A.; [THOMAS A. PRENDERGAST]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 7. A pre-war photograph of the Chaucer Window (to the left, just above Chaucer’s tomb). The window was destroyed by a bomb blast in 1940. Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

transcends death, not so much because the wisdom is made visible in the beautiful window (Stanley surely understood the impermanent nature of glass), but because it is able, like the leaf, to embody “virtue and during qualities.” Like those manuscripts and printed editions of Chaucer, then, the tomb and the commemorative window reveal a kind of paradox. They are the embodiments of the dead poet which make him present; at the same time they demonstrate the fragile nature of these embodiments and the fragility of the attempts to restore the corruptible and impermanent corporeal shell.

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