Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale

Author / Editor
Tolkien, J. R. R.

Title
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale

Published
Tolkien Studies 5 (2008): 109-71.

Description
Reprints Tolkien's assessment of the dialect features of RvT, originally presented to the Philological Society in Oxford (May 1931) and published in the Society's Transactions in 1934. This version is reprinted with attention to Tolkien's marginal comments and corrections to a copy of the original printed version.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies