The Sources of the Verse Examples in Gascoigne's "Certayne Notes of Instruction."
- Author / Editor
- Alexander, Gavin.
The Sources of the Verse Examples in Gascoigne's "Certayne Notes of Instruction."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 52-53.
- Description
- In this "first printed work of English vernacular literary criticism" (dated 1575), Gascoigne refers to ParsT (10.43) in arguing "For it is not inough to roll in pleasant woordes, nor yet to thunder in Rym, Ram, Ruff, by letter (quoth my master Chaucer)."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Parson and His Tale