Whitman, Chaucer, and French Words
- Author / Editor
- Dressman, Michael R.
Whitman, Chaucer, and French Words
- Published
- Walt Whitman Review 23 (1977): 77-82.
- Description
- Identifies Walt Whitman's interest in Chaucer's use of French vocabulary, and suggests that this interest is "tied directly" to Whitman's self-conscious "role as 'Poet' in the tradition of Chaucer" and his desire to enrich American English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Language and Word Studies