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