The Beginnings of Chaucer's English Style
- Author / Editor
- Benson, Larry D.
The Beginnings of Chaucer's English Style
- Published
- Theodore M. Anderson and Stephen A. Barney, eds. Contradictions: From "Beowulf" to Chaucer (Aldershot, Hants: Scolar; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1995), pp. 243-65.
- Description
- Surveys the lyric and romance traditions of England and France that most likely influenced Chaucer's early writing, commenting on how Rom, ABC, and BD reflect the possible sources and development of Chaucer's colloquial English style.
- Also published in Lawrence Besserman, ed., The Challenge of Periodization (New York: Garland, 1996).
- Alternative Title
- Contradictions: From "Beowulf" To Chaucer.
- Challenge of Periodization.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.