Literary Dialect in Chaucer, Hardy, and Alan Garner

Author / Editor
Elliott, Ralph W. V.

Title
Literary Dialect in Chaucer, Hardy, and Alan Garner

Published
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 66 (1989): 37-56.

Description
Chaucer created a literary dialect that influenced writers centuries later. Elliott focuses on Chaucer's dialect, pronunciation, and grammar; Hardy's words and syntax; and Garner's rythms and cadences.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.