Lyrics and Short Poems

Author / Editor
Holsinger, Bruce.

Title
Lyrics and Short Poems

Published
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 179-212.

Description
Holsinger explores each of Chaucer's lyrics and short poems, explicating tensions of form and theme and explaining Chaucer's "cagey manipulation" of metrical and lyric conventions - English, French, and Italian. Rarely an inventor, Chaucer was a lyric innovator who experimented with relationships between emotion and form.

Alternative Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.
Style and Versification.