Geoffrey Chaucer: Where Colloquial Speech Meets Prosody
- Author / Editor
- Cader, Teresa D.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Where Colloquial Speech Meets Prosody
- Published
- Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds. Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1996), pp. 31-36.
- Description
- Explicates the opening eighteen lines of GP to demonstrate Chaucer's rich combination of formal prosodic devices, colloquial variety of register, and thematic resonance. The appeal of his verse "lies primarily in its sound."
- Contributor
- Pack, Robert, ed.
- Parini, Jay, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales