The Royal Stanza in Early English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Stevens, Martin.
The Royal Stanza in Early English Literature
- Published
- PMLA 94 (1979): 67-76.
- Description
- The rhyme royal stanza takes its name from the fact that it was used in ballade contests in the fourteenth century to address real or imaginary royalty. Chaucer employed the stanza first for royal address in PF and TC. In MLT he used it to create a high style. "Prose" in MLT means formal stanzas of equal length.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.