'I kan nat geeste': Chaucer's Artful Alliteration

Author / Editor
Osberg, Richard H.

Title
'I kan nat geeste': Chaucer's Artful Alliteration

Published
Alan T. Gaylord, ed. Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 195-227.

Description
Assesses Chaucer's uses of alliteration as recurrent adornment despite the poet's distance from the so-called alliterative tradition. Focuses on the role of alliteration in various kinds of rhetorical situations (high style, courtliness, prayer, and satire), drawing examples from CT and LGW

Alternative Title
Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.