Chaucer's Verse and Alliterative Poetry: Grammar, Metre, and Some Secrets of the Syllable Count
- Author / Editor
- Putter, Ad.
Chaucer's Verse and Alliterative Poetry: Grammar, Metre, and Some Secrets of the Syllable Count
- Published
- Poetica (Tokyo) 67 (2007): 19-35.
- Description
- Putter compares Chaucer's techniques to the "close control" of syllable counting by alliterative poets. Although the metrical goals of these poets differ from those of Chaucer, the means whereby alliterative poets achieve control are similar to Chaucer's--e.g., using verbs that allow various forms ("lien" and "shinen") and capitalizing on flexible morphology, especially final -e.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Language and Word Studies.