On the Continuity of English Poetry Between Beowulf and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Tripp, Raymond P., Jr.
On the Continuity of English Poetry Between Beowulf and Chaucer
- Published
- PoeticaT 6 (1976): 1ı21
- Description
- Argues for the continuity of English literary tradition from Beowulf to the present by exploring several "great speeches" in Chaucer's works and in previous literature. No one disputes the continuity from Chaucer to the present, and the presence in these speeches of similar rhetorical and thematic devices indicates a common English tradition up to and including Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.