Chaucer's Use of the Octosyllabic Verse.

Author/Editor
Shannon, Edgar F.

Title
Chaucer's Use of the Octosyllabic Verse.

Published
Shannon, Edgar F. "Chaucer's Use of the Octosyllabic Verse." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 12 (1913): 277-94.

Review
Primarily a study of Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and "House of Fame," but includes references to Gower's CA as an example of smoothly-handled octosyllables leading to monotony. [RFY1981]

Date
1913

Gower Subjects
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification