Rymyng Craftily: Meaning in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Stephen.
Rymyng Craftily: Meaning in Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- London: Angus and Robertson, 1973
- Physical Description
- xviii, 247 pp.
- Description
- A series of five case studies in cloxe reading that demonstrate Chaucer's skill with prosodic and rhetorical devices; includes an appendix that defines and exemplifies "figures of style" (pp. 236-42). Chapter 1 contrasts the stylistic virtuosity of PF with the "unsatisfactory" poetry of Anel. Chapter 2 assesses the stylistic differences between the narrator and various "minor characters" in TC; chapter 3, the stylistic variety of KnT; chapter 4, the "poetic subtlety" of FranT and the ways that it is more successfully integrated into CT than is ManT. Chapter 5 discloses how the stylistic "pyrotechnics" of NPT convey gentle mockery of rhetorical writing as a branch of learning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Parliament of Fowls
- Anelida and Arcite
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Manciple and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale