What is "Chaucer's Borrow"?
- Author / Editor
- John, Lilse C.
What is "Chaucer's Borrow"?
- Published
- Notes and Queries 201 (1956): 97-98.
- Description
- Seeks advice in understanding the phrase "Chaucer's borrow" which appears Sir Nicholas H. Nicholas's "Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton" (1847), where it is quoted from a letter to Hatton from William Dodington. Clarifies the context and posits that "borrow" may be a mistake for "barrow" and that the phrase could possibly refer to either Geoffrey or Thomas Chaucer. See the Reply by M. H. Dodds, Notes and Queries 201 (1956): 317-18.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Language and Word Studies