'I kan nat geeste': Chaucer's Artful Alliteration
- Author / Editor
- Osberg, Richard H.
'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.