The Beginnings of Chaucer's English Style

Author / Editor
Benson, Larry D.

Title
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.