The Joy of Chaucer's Lydgate Lines
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson, Jr.
The Joy of Chaucer's Lydgate Lines
- Published
- Alan T. Gaylord, ed. Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 267-79.
- Description
- Brown discourages emendation ("dreary refinements") of Chaucer's meter, arguing that "broken-backed" or "Lydgatian" lines recorded in good manuscripts are likely to be Chaucer's own. Metrical variation within Chaucer's dominant patterns can have powerful poetic effects.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.