Wyatt, Chaucer, and "Terza Rima."

Author / Editor
Watson, Melvin R.

Title
Wyatt, Chaucer, and "Terza Rima."

Published
Modern Language Notes 68, no. 2 (1953): 124-25.

Description
Qualifies scholarly claims that Sir Thomas Wyatt was the first to use "terza rima" in English poetry, observing that Chaucer used the verse form in a brief passage of "The Complaint to His Lady."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Complaint to His Lady