Chaucer's Riding Rhyme
- Author / Editor
- Chickering, Howell.
Chaucer's Riding Rhyme
- Published
- Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 49-63.
- Description
- Chaucer's poetry should be declaimed or at least heard with the "mind's ear." His decasyllabic couplets, once dismissed by critics as "riding rhyme" and even confused with the doggerel of Th, are "eminently playable," offering a variety of phonological and semantic possibilities. Rhyme, enjambment, and caesurae contribute to Chaucer's conversational style in CT.
- Alternative Title
- Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Tale of Sir Thopas