The Study of English Prosody: An Alternative Proposal

Author / Editor
Magnuson, Karl, and Frank G. Ryder.

Title
The Study of English Prosody: An Alternative Proposal

Published
College English 31 (1970): 789-820.

Description
Challenges the validity of the metrical theory proposed by Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser in their "Chaucer and the Study of Prosody" (1966), commenting on their treatment of several lines of Chaucer's verse but concentrating on later English poetry and proposing an alternate theory of stress.

Contributor
Ryder, Frank G.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification