The English Tradition in Chaucer's Diction

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
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.