Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": A Metrical Study.

Author / Editor
Malone, Kemp.

Title
Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": A Metrical Study.

Published
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 71-95.

Description
Scans the verse in the first 100 lines of BD, with commentary on emendations and unusual features; then offers a catalog of scansion (with analysis and extensive notes) of the entire poem, concluding that the "basis of Chaucer's metrics" in BD (and HF) was "the long line familiar to us" in Old English poetry. i.e. Sievers' "types."

Alternative Title
Chaucer und Seine Zeit

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
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