Eighteen Lines of Chaucer's "Prologue."

Author / Editor
Danby, John F.

Title
Eighteen Lines of Chaucer's "Prologue."

Published
Critical Quarterly 2 (1960): 28-32.

Description
Comments on stylistic and tonal aspects of GP 1.1-18, focusing on their harmonious energy and "generalized vocabulary." Also comments Chaucer's sympathetic irony elsewhere in GP.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification