A New Look at Chaucer and the Rhetoricians

Author / Editor
Murphy, James J.

Title
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.