The Earlier Poems.

Author / Editor
Lawlor, John.

Title
The Earlier Poems.

Published
D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 39-64.

Description
Addresses Chaucer's "narrative art" in BD, HF, PF, Anel, and Mars, exploring how a coterie audience may have responded to oral performance of the emphases, shifts, and turns in these poems. Also attends to prosodic features, and to the poet's relations to his narrators.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Chaucerians

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Anelida and Arcite
Complaint of Mars