The English Tradition in Chaucer's Diction
- Author / Editor
- Ando, Shinsuke.
The English Tradition in Chaucer's Diction
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 163-74.
- Description
- Though well versed in French poetic traditions, Chaucer did not simply translate French into English. Rom uses a uniquely English idiom. Later works such as Th show a greater ability to discern connotations than do early works such as Rom and BD.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.