Chaucer, Usk, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf
- Author / Editor
- Burnley, J. D.
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.