Final -e in Gower's English Poetry, in Comparison with Chaucer's.
- Author / Editor
- Werthmuller, Gyongyi.
Final -e in Gower's English Poetry, in Comparison with Chaucer's.
- Published
- South Atlantic Review 79.3-4 (2015): 6-19.
- Description
- Tabulates evidence of the greater regularity of stress in Gower's verse than in Chaucer's, particularly in nouns and adjectives that feature the apocope of final unstressed -e. Attributes this regularity to the influence of Gower having written French verse, and calls for more thorough exploration of this and related phenomena.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies