Chaucer's Poetic Style

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Chaucer's Poetic Style

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986): pp. 227-42.

Description
Discusses "orality" and "literacy," "familiar" and "learned" elements of Chaucer's style, including formulas, sententiousness, "repetition with variation," metonymy, hyperbole, and imagery.

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.