Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English

Author / Editor
Lerer, Seth.

Title
Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English

Published
Seth Lerer. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 70-84.

Description
Characterizes the language of Chaucer's day and emphasizes his range and synthesis of styles, exemplifying features of Middle English and Chaucer's dexterous uses of it in poetry and prose. Comments at length on the opening of GP, on Astr, on uses of second-person pronouns, on vocabulary, and on range in linguistic register.

Alternative Title
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Style and Versification.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Treatise on the Astrolabe.