Chaucer and the Art of Digression

Author / Editor
Gray, Douglas.

Title
Chaucer and the Art of Digression

Published
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 11 (1996): 21-47.

Description
The English word "digression" is first recorded in TC 1.143, where the narrator comments on the fall of Troy. This digression anticipates ideas and images that occur later in the poem and reflects the narrator's difficulty in coming to a conclusion.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Language and Word Studies.