Chaucer: Folk Poet or Littrateur?
- Author / Editor
- Youmans, Gilbert, and Xingzhong Li.
Chaucer: Folk Poet or Littrateur?
- Published
- Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 153-75.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's decasyllabic lines are based on metrically significant, statistically normative feet, with clear and significant caesuras. Chaucer's and Shakespeare's iambic lines deviate from prototypical lines in similar ways. See Thomas Cable, "A Rejoinder to Youmans and Li."
- Contributor
- Li, Xingzhong.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.