Thomas Gray and the Goths: Philology, Poetry, and the Uses of the Norse Past in Eighteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Kelsey Jackson.
Thomas Gray and the Goths: Philology, Poetry, and the Uses of the Norse Past in Eighteenth-Century England
- Published
- Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 252-65
- Description
- Thomas Gray's article "Metrum" "castigates John Urry's edition of Chaucer for its arbitrary insertion of words and syllables to regularize perceived defects" and discounts "George Puttenham's strictures against so-called Chaucerian 'riding rhyme' " in a larger attempt to "link specific metres back to earlier French and Italian forms."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
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