Stylistic Ambivalence In Chaucer, Yeats and Lucretius--The Cresting Wave and Its Undertow
- Author / Editor
- Utley, Francis Lee.
Stylistic Ambivalence In Chaucer, Yeats and Lucretius--The Cresting Wave and Its Undertow
- Published
- University Review 37 (1971): 174-98.
- Description
- Close reading of the opening of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura," TC 5.1765-1889, and W. B. Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium," emphasizing that, despite differences, all three manipulate rhythm and tone to convey the "warring intensities" of human emotion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Style and Versification