On Reading Chaucer

Author / Editor
Hill, Betty.

Title
On Reading Chaucer

Published
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Literary and Historical Section 14 (1971): 207-20.

Description
Reads six stanzas from TC (3.85-126), closely analyzing rhymes and rhythm, alliteration, diction and phrases, repetitions and echoes of other works to exemplify the "pliable pleasure" afforded by Chaucer's style and his engagement with oral and written traditions alike.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde