Libertine Scribes and Maidenly Editors: Meditations on Textual Criticism and Metrics
- Author / Editor
- Duggan, Hoyt N.
Libertine Scribes and Maidenly Editors: Meditations on Textual Criticism and Metrics
- Published
- C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996): pp. 219-37.
- Description
- Comments on Dryden's and Tyrwhitt's views of Chaucer's meter as background to assessing editorial treatments of the meter of "Pearl." Argues that editors need to emend the manuscript of "Pearl" more aggressively to minimize scribal interventions and clarify the metrical virtuosity of the poem.
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Metrics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.