The Alliterative Lyric and Thirteenth-Century Devotional Prose

Author / Editor
Osberg, Richard H.

Title
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.