From 'swutol sang scopes' to 'rum, ram, ruf,' or the Problems of Alliteration
- Author / Editor
- Crepin, Andre.
From 'swutol sang scopes' to 'rum, ram, ruf,' or the Problems of Alliteration
- Published
- Jean-Jacques Blanchot and Claude Graf, eds. Actes du 2e Colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (moyen age et renaissance) (Universite de Strasbourg, 1978), pp. 113-24.
- Description
- In discussing the standard alliterative line in medieval English poetry, notes Chaucer's attitude toward alliteration in ParsP and, focussing on TC, shows the diminishing role of alliteration in Chaucer. Alliterative patterns and phrases provide ornaments for, not the structure of, his poetry.
- Alternative Title
- Actes du 2e Colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (moyen age et renaissance).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Troilus and Criseyde.