Theme, Prosody, and Mimesis in the Book of the Duchess

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
Theme, Prosody, and Mimesis in the Book of the Duchess

Published
Alan T. Gaylord, ed. Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 283-95.

Description
The "seeming eccentricities" in the verse of BD are an index to the poem's "complex intention." Close reading demonstrates how variations in verse communicate "the delicate psychological process the poem describes."

Alternative Title
Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Style and versification.