Issues for a New History of English Prosody
- Author / Editor
- Cable, Thomas.
Issues for a New History of English Prosody
- Published
- Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 125-51.
- Description
- Surveys twentieth-century developments in describing and analyzing the prosody of early English poetry, summarizing and assessing the views of Wimsatt and Beardsley, Halle and Keyser, Kiparsky, and others on meter, stress, ictus and their relations. The regularity of Chaucer's and Gower's verse is a function of stress shift.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.