Differentiating Chaucer and Lydgate: Some Preliminary Observations

Author / Editor
Reimer, Stephen R.

Title
Differentiating Chaucer and Lydgate: Some Preliminary Observations

Published
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 161-76.

Description
Summarizes questions of Lydgate's canon and its relation to Chaucerian apocrypha. Describes a series of computer-assisted stylistic analyses used to clarify the canon, showing that Lydgate tends to use "large and complex syntactic structures" and "certain characteristic words and phrases."

Alternative Title
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Chaucerian Apocrypha.