Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, William F., and Elizebeth S. Freidman.
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