Chaucer and the English Romance Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Haymes, Edward R.
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