Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650.
- Author / Editor
- Weiskott, Eric.
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 298 pp.
- Description
- Examines "uses and misuses" of three metrical forms found in English literary history between 1350 and 1650: alliterative meter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Rejects the traditional division between medieval and modern in reexamination of Chaucer’s English metrical phonology during the "age of the pentameter."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification