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