A Rejoinder to Youmans and Li

Author / Editor
Cable, Thomas.

Title
A Rejoinder to Youmans and Li

Published
Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 177-82.

Description
Critiques Youmans and Li's assessment of Chaucer's verse (in this same volume, pp. 153-75), urging metricists to avoid "importing phonological analyses" into theory of meter.

Alternative Title
Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.