Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics in Fourteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor Bayne.
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