The Poetic Technique of Enjambment in Chaucer's Poems: The Case of Five Sentence Elements (S, Aux, V, O, C)

Author / Editor
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.

Title
The Poetic Technique of Enjambment in Chaucer's Poems: The Case of Five Sentence Elements (S, Aux, V, O, C)

Published
Masahiro Hori, Tomoji Tabata, and Sadahiro Kumamoto, eds. Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Professor Hiroyuki Ito (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 71-92.

Description
Kumamoto examines eleven syntactical patterns used in conjunction with poetic enjambment. Chaucer's poetry contains more enjambment than do three anonymous romances included for comparison—and Chaucer uses enjambment more in his early poetry (BD, HF, PF) than in KnT, MilT, and RvT.

Contributor
Hori, Masahiro, ed
Tabata, Tomoji, ed.
Kumamoto, Sadahiro, ed.

Alternative Title
Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Professor Hiroyuki Ito.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.