Verses of Cadence: An Introduction to the Prosody of Chaucer and his Followers.
- Author / Editor
- Southworth, James Granville.
Verses of Cadence: An Introduction to the Prosody of Chaucer and his Followers.
- Published
- Oxford: Blackwell, 1954.
- Physical Description
- 94 pp.
- Description
- Challenges the theory that Chaucer wrote in iambic pentameter, assessing the evidence of Chaucer manuscripts, using them to argue that the prosody of Chaucer (and that of his fifteenth-century followers) depends upon length or duration rather than stress--rhetorical units rather than metrical ones--and that final -e should not be pronounced when reading this poetry. Represents prosodic patterns in musical notation. For elaborations and adjustments to these arguments, see Southworth's "The Prosody of Chaucer and His Followers" (1962).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sytle and Versificatiion
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies