English from Caedmon to Chaucer: The Literary Development of English
- Author / Editor
- Curran, S. Terrie.
English from Caedmon to Chaucer: The Literary Development of English
- Published
- Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 290 pp.
- Description
- A linguistic history of Old and Middle English that uses several Chaucerian examples to explain changes in morphology and phonology. Chapter 12 discusses Chaucer's contributions to English, to poetry, and to prosody. The apparatus indexes the literary works cited and provides a number of useful Internet links. Works considered include Astr, Adam, TC, BD, GP, KnT, NPT, ParsT, SqT, WBT, and Mel.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Style and Versification