The Noble Rhetor: Chaucer and Medieval Poetic Traditions

Author / Editor
Andreas, James Robert.

Title
The Noble Rhetor: Chaucer and Medieval Poetic Traditions

Published
DAI 34.08 (1974): 5088A.

Description
Surveys the importance of classical and medieval rhetorical theories that underlie late medieval poetry, and discusses the "flowering of rhetorico-poetic technique in Chaucer's verse," analyzing samples of his poetry in light of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's "Documentum de arte versificandi."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification