Chaucer and the Alliterative Romances

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Chaucer and the Alliterative Romances

Published
Chaucer Review 3.3 (1969): 163-69.

Description
Considers evidence from ParsP (10.42-44), KnT (1.2605-16), and LGW (635-58) that Chaucer may have been familiar with Middle English alliterative romances, arguing that the proposition is unlikely. While he may have known alliterative religious verse, his uses of and references to alliteration imply no necessary familiarity with native romances.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification
Parson and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Legend of Good Women