Chaucer’s Verse in Its European Context.
- Author / Editor
- Duffell, Martin J.
Chaucer’s Verse in Its European Context.
- Published
- Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xii, 304 pp.
- Series
- Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, no. 513.
- Description
- Combines "generative" metrical analysis with statistical sampling, synchronic and diachronic comparisons, and attention to the history of metrical criticism to proclaim Chaucer the "father of English poetry’s metrical artistry." Describes native English, classical, French, and Italian metrical traditions and their influences on Chaucer as a versifier and metrical artist, articulating his "innovations," "improvements," "versatility," and "discretion," and clarifying the "extent of his achievement" and later influence. Assesses a wide variety of metrical topics, with a glossary of technical terms, and evaluates Chaucer's metrical practices in comparison with those of Gower, English and Scottish Chaucerians, Wyatt and Surrey, Shakespeare, Milton, and later poets.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion