Chaucer, Gower, and the History of the Hendecasyllable
- Author / Editor
- Duffell, Martin J.
Chaucer, Gower, and the History of the Hendecasyllable
- Published
- C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 210-18.
- Description
- Surveys the development and scholarship of hendecasyllabic meter, identifying the innovations whereby Chaucer produced the first English iambic pentamenter and Gower experimented with variable caesura in hendecasyllabic lines to produce Anglo-Norman iambic pentameter.
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Metrics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.