Chaucer's Lists

Author / Editor
Barney, Stephen A.

Title
Chaucer's Lists

Published
Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Wisdom of Poetry (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1982), pp. 189-223.

Description
Surveys the sources of Chaucer's lists and examines them for the effects they create, for the rhetorical ends they accomplish in undermining or leavening the direction of a tale or poem, as in TC, Anel, FrT, Rom, WBT, PardT, MkT, MkPT, MerT, Mel, FranT, Th, CYT, KnT, NPT, BD, LGW, RvPT, PF, HF, Pity, GP, MLT, PhyT, ClT, ClPT, MilT, SNT, ManT, and ParsT.

Alternative Title
The Wisdom of Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.