The Alliterative Lyric and Thirteenth-Century Devotional Prose
- Author / Editor
- Osberg, Richard H.
The Alliterative Lyric and Thirteenth-Century Devotional Prose
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 76 (1977): 40-54.
- Description
- The large amount of alliteration in narrative and lyric poetry of the courtly tradition, including Chaucer's poetry, is derived from certain veins of devotional prose of the thirteenth century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.