Chaucer's Epistolary Style.
- Author / Editor
- Norton-Smith, J[ohn].
Chaucer's Epistolary Style.
- Published
- Roger Fowler, ed. Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966), pp. 157-65.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's "reading and use" of the genre of verse epistle, drawing on evidence from LGW, the two letters in TC, Scog, and Buk. Considers the influence of Ovid's "Heroides" and Horace's "Satires" to argue that Chaucer was adept in the Ovidian mode, influencing the amatory lyrics of his fifteenth-century followers, and, in Scog, the "first English poet to master the essentials" of the Horatian verse epistle.
- Contributor
- Fowler, Roger, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Envoy to Bukton
Envoy to Scogan
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence