Imagining the Bob and Wheel.

Author / Editor
Solberg, Emma Maggie.

Title
Imagining the Bob and Wheel.

Published
PMLA 137 (2022): 52-69.

Description
Focuses on the poetic form made famous by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Th, but also considers poetic form in the scorpion passage of BD and alliteration in ParsP. Discusses myths surrounding the "bob and wheel" form that are often perpetuated both by students engaging in cursory internet searches and incorrect online study guides.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Tale of Sir Thopas
Book of the Duchess
Parson and His Tale