Chaucer and the Alliterative Romances
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
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