Fifteenth-Century Rhythmical Changes

Author / Editor
Cable, Thomas.

Title
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.