French Rhymes and Chaucer's Wit

Author / Editor
Crepin, Andre.

Title
French Rhymes and Chaucer's Wit

Published
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 31 (1987): 466-76.

Description
Argues that rhyme in English was rare only by reference to French lyrical poetry. Chaucer felt suspicious of craftsmanship for its own sake. Sophistication in rhyming is better left to those who "make in Fraunce."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.