"Seinte Loy": A Metrical Non-Problem in Chaucer's "General Prologue."

Author / Editor
Weiskott, Eric.

Title
"Seinte Loy": A Metrical Non-Problem in Chaucer's "General Prologue."

Published
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 361-63.

Description
Explores the orthography and meter of "seint(e)" in GP, 120, and elsewhere in Chaucer’s poetry, claiming that "the line is a metrical non-problem," despite the tradition of reading it as irregular, in need of emendation, or troubling because of the presence (or lack) of -e in manuscripts.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Manuscripts and Textual Studies