'My Maistre & C': The Rhetoric of Epistolary Verse from Chaucer to Johnson

Author / Editor
Harvey, Gordon Charles.

Title
'My Maistre & C': The Rhetoric of Epistolary Verse from Chaucer to Johnson

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 1150A.

Description
Redirecting the verse letter from Horatian urbanity and medieval rhetoric, Chaucer achieves an intimate, familiar tone. His successors from Dunbar to the Renaissance develop variously.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.