Poetry: The Basics

Author / Editor
Wainwright, Jeffrey.

Title
Poetry: The Basics

Published
New York: Routledge, 2004.

Physical Description
xiii, 223 pp.

Description
Includes comments on Chaucer's use of "deliberate space" in MerB and rhyme royal in TC, along with more extended discussion of the variety of voices and registers in CT, in which Chaucer "makes the pleasure and purpose of story-telling the very method and substance of his work" (sentence and solaas). Second, revised edition published in 2011.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General
Merciles Beaute
Troilus and Criseyde