The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart: Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal.
- Author / Editor
- Figg, Kristen Mossler.
The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart: Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal.
- Published
- New York and London: Garland, 1994.
- Physical Description
- ix, 293 pp.
- Description
- Assesses the nature and quality of Froissart's short poems: lays, chansons royales, pastourelles, ballades, virelays, and rondeaux, providing texts and commentary. The Introduction includes a survey of scholarship about Froissart's influence on Chaucer, and comments further about his possible influence on Chaucer's verse and style.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification