'Faire Subtile Wordes': An Approach to Chaucer's Verbal Art
- Author / Editor
- Elliott, Ralph W. V.
'Faire Subtile Wordes': An Approach to Chaucer's Verbal Art
- Published
- Parergon 13 (1975): 3-20.
- Description
- Chaucer's comments on language show him to be particularly sensitive to all aspects of English, which had become fully accepted as a literary language. Along with other Middle English writers like the "Gawain"-poet and Langland, he manipulates levels of style with skill, and he displays great lexical variety.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Style and Versification.