Comic Meter and Rhyme in the 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Chickering, Howell.
Comic Meter and Rhyme in the 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 2 (1995): 17-47.
- Description
- Surveys critical commentary on Chaucer's prosody, noting its subordination to commentary on his narrative art.
- Exemplifies Chaucer's prosodic virtuosity by demonstrating the colloquial ease that underlies MilT and examining specific instances of comic manipulation of meter, rhyme, and couplet in the tale.
- Examines passages in unpunctuated form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Miller and His Tale.