Reconsidering Chaucer's Prosody
- Author / Editor
- Youmans, Gilbert.
Reconsidering Chaucer's Prosody
- Published
- C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 185-209.
- Description
- Reexamines Halle and Keyser's three principles of the iambic line as applied to Chaucer's verse, arguing that the verse is better explained by a prototypical hierarchy of stresses than by a pattern of alternating weak and strong stresses. Kiparsky's Monosyllabic Word Constraint Principle better explains Chaucer's (and Shakespeare's and Milton's) inversions for meter than does Halle and Keyser's Stress Maximum Principle.
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Metrics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.