The Uses of Personae and the Art of Obliqueness in Some Chaucer Lyrics I, II, and III

Author / Editor
Stephens, John.

Title
The Uses of Personae and the Art of Obliqueness in Some Chaucer Lyrics I, II, and III

Published
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 360-73; 21 (1987): 459-68; 22 (1987): 41-52.

Description
Close analyses of grammar and diction, including shifts in verb tense, show a considerable range of both poetic role playing and distancing between author and speaker--self-mockery and travesty (Buk, For, Lady, Pity, Ros, Scog).

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.