Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics in Fourteenth-Century England

Author / Editor
Johnson, Eleanor Bayne.

Title
Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics in Fourteenth-Century England

Published
DAI A70.10 (2010): n.p.

Description
Considers the alternation between the pedagogy of argument (prose sections) and pleasure (metrical sections) in "prosimetrum," arguing that the form of Boethius's "Consolation" was as essential as its content for writers such as Chaucer, Usk, Hoccleve, and Julian of Norwich.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification