'Sir Thopas': An Agony in Three Fits
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, J. A.
'Sir Thopas': An Agony in Three Fits
- Published
- Review of English Studies 22 (1971): 54-58.
- Description
- Adduces textual and rhetorical evidence to show that Tho divides into three fits of proportionately diminishing size: eighteen stanzas, nine stanzas, and four and one-half stanzas, achieving a "mathematical harmony of form."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Style and Versification