Chaucer and the English Language
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Norman.
Chaucer and the English Language
- Published
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977), pp. 3-22.
- Description
- Surveys opinions about Chaucer's diction from John Lydgate to G. K. Chesterton and explores the French elements in the vocabulary of his love poetry, along the way commenting on relations between Chaucerian and Chancery diction, the "texture of diction" in passages of Chaucer's poetry (including changes in register between Chaucer's works and their sources), and the interdependence of diction and meter that helps to create the "range and power" of Chaucer's poetic practice.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Style and Versification
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations