The Textual Reliability of Chaucer's Lyrics: 'A Complaint to His Lady'

Author / Editor
Clogan, Paul (M.)

Title
The Textual Reliability of Chaucer's Lyrics: 'A Complaint to His Lady'

Published
Medievalia et Humanistica 5 (1974): 183-89.

Description
The exensive emendations in the text of "Lady" are unjustified. The poem is a series of unfinished metrical innovations, showing Chaucer experimenting and practicing his art. The search for metrical regularity has in this lyric deprived the poem of its distinctive style and versification.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint to His Lady.