Misreading English Meter: 1400-1514.

Author / Editor
Myklebust, Nicholas.

Title
Misreading English Meter: 1400-1514.

Published
Open access Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, 2012. Available at https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/19527; accessed December 16, 2021.

Description
Challenges "the standard view that fifteenth-century poets wrote irregular meters in artless imitation of Chaucer," arguing instead that "Chaucer’s followers deliberately misread his meter in order to challenge his authority" and rather than reproducing that meter, "they reformed it, creating three distinct meters that vied for dominance in the first decades of the fifteenth century."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification