Poetry: The Basics
- Author / Editor
- Wainwright, Jeffrey.
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