Chaucer's Anxiety of Poetic Craft: The Squire's Tale

Author / Editor
Jones, Lindsey M.

Title
Chaucer's Anxiety of Poetic Craft: The Squire's Tale

Published
Style 41 (2007): 300-318.

Description
SqT illustrates how "a poet may come to poetic and prosodic mastery." Chaucer's conscious creation of an inept teller who overuses or misuses rhyme, enjambment, and caesura illustrates the difficult process of maturing as a poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale