Water from the Well: The Reception of Chaucer's Metric
- Author / Editor
- Groves, Peter.
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.