The Connections Between the Ballade, Chaucer's Modifications of It, Rime Royal, and the Spenserian Stanza.
- Author/Editor
- Maynard, Theodore.
- Title
- The Connections Between the Ballade, Chaucer's Modifications of It, Rime Royal, and the Spenserian Stanza.
- Published
- Maynard, Theodore. The Connections Between the Ballade, Chaucer's Modifications of It, Rime Royal, and the Spenserian Stanza. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1934, pp. 89, 129.
- Review
- Unlike Chaucer, Gower in his CB writes true ballades (defined as a poem of 28 lines, divided into three stanzas of eight lines and a half stanza—envoi—rhymed ABABBCBC, using the same rhyme in every stanza, with refrain), while Chaucer's are frequently modified forms; like Chaucer, however, Gower used a greater freedom with caesura than did French poets. [RFY1981].
- Date
- 1934
- Gower Subjects
- Cinkante Balades
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations