The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England

Author / Editor
Rush, Rebecca.

Title
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England

Published
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Physical Description
x, 284 pp.

Description
Considers briefly Chaucer's influence on the revival of poetic couplets in early modern English verse, especially as mediated by George Puttenham's "The Arte of English Poesie."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification