Dido at Hunt, Chaucer at Work

Author / Editor
Gaylord. Alan T.

Title
Dido at Hunt, Chaucer at Work

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 300-315.

Description
By deliberate excision lines 1188-1203 of LGW can be reduced from decasyllables to octosyllables, illustrating the different effects of the lines, especially the longer "breath" of the decasyllable.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Legend of Good Women.