Chaucer's Prosody: A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition.

Author/Editor
Robinson, Ian.

Title
Chaucer's Prosody: A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition.

Published
Robinson, Ian. Chaucer's Prosody: A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp. 88, 96, 97, 136, 137-38, 141, 172, 180-85.

Review
Discusses Gower's uses of final "-e" for metrical purposes; argues that Gower's verse is less like speech than is Chaucer's since it is not rhythmic like Chaucer's, and hence, sounds less confident in English and flat in tone. [RFY1981].

Date
1971

Gower Subjects
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification