On Footprints and Poetic Feet.

Author / Editor
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.

Title
On Footprints and Poetic Feet.

Published
Philological Quarterly 94, no. 3 (2015): 201–23.

Description
Discusses the idea of "poetic feet" of versification in poetry, and examines how travel narratives are linked to poetic language. Compares CT (particularly ParsT, MkT, KnT, Tho, Mel, and TC, to Dante's "Inferno" and Mandeville's travel narrative.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Melibee
Monk and His Tale
Parson and His Tale