Chaucerian Final -'e'
- Author / Editor
- Samuels, M. L.
Chaucerian Final -'e'
- Published
- Notes and Queries 217 (1972): 445-48.
- Description
- Argues that pronounced Chaucerian final -'e' is generally conservative and grammatical (rather than rhetorical or colloquial), identifying parallels in Old English usage and Middle English scribal practice, and commenting on the loss of final -'e' among Chaucer's later followers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Language and Word Studies
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion