Water from the Well: The Reception of Chaucer's Metric

Author / Editor
Groves, Peter.

Title
Water from the Well: The Reception of Chaucer's Metric

Published
Parergon 18.1: 51-73, 2000.

Description
Over six centuries, Chaucer's verse has been construed in a "bewildering variety of ways." This essay surveys the reception of Chaucer's metrics from his immediate contemporaries to the present and considers the process of "transmitting metrical systems across cultural, generational and linguistic boundaries."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.