A Guide to Chaucer's Meter
- Author / Editor
- Glowka, Arthur Wayne.
A Guide to Chaucer's Meter
- Published
- Lanham, Md., New York, and London: University Press of America, 1991.
- Physical Description
- 96 pp.
- Description
- Designed as a supplemental textbook for college courses on Chaucer or English prosody; includes brief exercises at the end of each of seven chapters. Introduces the basics of meter and rhythm and analyzes Chaucer's verse in traditional foot scansion, exploring the regularity of his lines (pentameter and four-stress), the problems of final -e, and metrical substitutions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.