English Prosody from Chaucer to Wyatt
- Author / Editor
- Conner, Jack.
English Prosody from Chaucer to Wyatt
- Published
- The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
- Physical Description
- 104 pp.
- Series
- Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, no. 193.
- Description
- Studies the history of English meter from Chaucer to Wyatt, considering scansion, rhythm, pronunciation, and syllabification, assessing Chaucer's uses of tetrameter and pentameter, and the practices of Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Wyatt. Focuses on the topic of consonant-release in final syllables, surveying historical understanding of the practice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification