Poets at Play: Irony and Parody in the Harley Lyrics
- Author / Editor
- Ransom, Daniel J.
Poets at Play: Irony and Parody in the Harley Lyrics
- Published
- Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1985.
- Description
- Ransom demonstrates "the ironic tone of four Harley poems," reveals "the parodic intention (ambiguities, incongruities, exaggerations) that underlies that tone," and discovers irony in other Harley lyrics. Includes various references to and comparisons with Chaucer, especially pp. 87-93, on Buk, Purse, Ros, Scog.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Lyrics and Short Poems.