Wise Wights in Privy Places: Rhyme and Stanza Form in Spenser and Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Brown, Richard Danson.

Title
Wise Wights in Privy Places: Rhyme and Stanza Form in Spenser and Chaucer.

Published
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 113-36.

Description
Argues that the Spenserian stanza "rebuilds Chaucerian rhyme royal" and that it "demands to be read as a form which takes its syntactic impetus more from rhyme royal than elsewhere." Examines aspects of rime riche, "interconnected" rhymes across stanza breaks, and syntactic structure of the stanza forms in TC and in Spenser's "Faerie Queene."

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

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