Three Models for English Verse: Inquiries in Metatheory

Author / Editor
Brogan, Terry Vance F.

Title
Three Models for English Verse: Inquiries in Metatheory

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3917A.

Description
Models for English prosody have been seen as Latinate, Romance, and Germanic, but eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reevaluations of Old English Verse, popular ballads,and Chaucer's poetry led to the "standard theory" of accent and foot.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.