The Language of Prayer in Middle English, 1200-1400.
- Author / Editor
- Tarvers, Josephine Koster.
The Language of Prayer in Middle English, 1200-1400.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985. Dissertation Abstracts International A46.11. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed August 18, 2025.
- Physical Description
- iii, 265 pp.
- Description
- Identifies "nine components commonly found in prayers," exploring their presence in various devotional poems in Middle English and interpolated in narrative works by the "Gawain"-poet, Langland, Gower, and Chaucer, observing superior style in the latter group and instances where narrators interrupt prayer "to relate it to the narrative situation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Background and General Criticism