The Grain of the Text

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
The Grain of the Text

Published
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 119-27.

Description
Praises E. Talbot Donaldson as a great textual scholar, using TC to explain Donaldson's ideas on rhyme and meter and discussing the final -"e" and the five-stress verse. The reliability of scribes is examined.

Alternative Title
Acts of Interpretation.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde.