A New Look at Chaucer and the Rhetoricians
- Author / Editor
- Murphy, James J.
A New Look at Chaucer and the Rhetoricians
- Published
- James Jerome Murphy. Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Variorum Collected Studies Series; Collected Studies, no. 827. Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2005.
- Description
- First published in 1964, the essay is reprinted here with original pagination, along with a number of other essays by Murphy. Murphy argues that Chaucer was not likely to have been directly influenced by rhetoricians such as Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
- Alternative Title
- Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.