Chaucer's Prosody and the Non-Pentameter Line in John Heywood's Comic Debates
- Author / Editor
- Fox, Allan B.
Chaucer's Prosody and the Non-Pentameter Line in John Heywood's Comic Debates
- Published
- Language and Style 10 (1977): 27-41.
- Description
- Although Heywood's comic debates are dismissed as negligible in metrical skill, once we realize that Chaucer's line is a non-pentameter, more dependent on alliterative accentual native verse than most metrists allow, then we can see that the debates reveal a formal control in a verse tradition stemming from Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Style and Versification.