Chaucer, Usk, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Author / Editor
Burnley, J. D.

Title
Chaucer, Usk, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Published
Neophilologus 69 (1985): 284-93.

Description
A review of the allusions to rhetoric in London poets of Chaucer's time fails to reveal a single firsthand reference to an original text. Rhetorical concepts contributed indirectly to their conceptions of poetry and gave the poets an air of literary sophistication.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.