Chaucer and the English Romance Tradition

Author / Editor
Haymes, Edward R.

Title
Chaucer and the English Romance Tradition

Published
South Atlantic Review 37.04 (1972): 35-43.

Description
Affirms Chaucer's familiarity with native English romances by identifying a number of formulaic phrases (some of them oral remnants) that recur in native romances and in a variety of Chaucer's works. Includes comments on Thop as evidence of Chaucer's familiarity with English romances.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Tale of Sir Thopas