Meter and Performance in Machaut and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Guthrie, Steven (R).
Meter and Performance in Machaut and Chaucer
- Published
- Rebecca Baltzer A., Thomas Cable, and James I. Wimsatt, eds. The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991, pp. 72-100.
- Description
- Explores lyric and narrative meters in Provencal poetry, Old and Middle French, and Middle English texts--especially Machaut and Chaucer--showing that a poet's intuitive sense of genre affects verse rhythm more directly than does musical notation. Chaucer's embedded and free-standing lyrics show greater rhythmic variety than does his narrative verse.
- Alternative Title
- Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.