'The Book of Cupid' as an Imitation of Chaucer: A Stylo-Statistical View

Author / Editor
McColly, William (B.)

Title
'The Book of Cupid' as an Imitation of Chaucer: A Stylo-Statistical View

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 239-49.

Description
Computerized statistical and stylistic analysis indicates that this work is a pale imitation of Chaucer. The imitator, perhaps Clanvowe, used Chaucer's tricks with context-independent function words.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Chaucerian Apocrypha.