The Grain of the Text
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek.
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.