Fifteenth-Century Rhythmical Changes
- Author / Editor
- Cable, Thomas.
Fifteenth-Century Rhythmical Changes
- Published
- Yoko Iyeiri and Margaret Connolly, eds. And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche: Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on His Sixtieth Birthday (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002), pp. 109-25.
- Description
- Cable laments deterioration in the understanding of Chaucer's meter. He argues that too little attention has been paid to the loss of final -e in the fifteenth century, leading to misreading the poetry of Lydgate, Hoccleve, Barclay, and Hawes.
- Alternative Title
- And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche (Tajima).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.