Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Friedman, William F., and Elizebeth S. Freidman.

Title
Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer.

Published
Philological Quarterly 38 (1959): 1-20.

Description
Introduces literary acrostics and anagrams as examples of "unkeyed" transposition ciphers, clarifying some terminology of cryptography, and applying technical analysis to invalidate Ethel Seaton's claims (1957) about "so-called double acrostic anagrams" in PF and Purse.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Parliament of Fowls
Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse