The Construction of Chaucer's "General Prologue."
- Author / Editor
- Swart, J.
The Construction of Chaucer's "General Prologue."
- Published
- Neophilologus 38 (1954): 127-36.
- Description
- Admires the structural patterns of GP--seven groupings, significant juxtapositions, alterations of detail and generalization, etc.--suggesting that they produce "a poetic realization of plenitude and diversity," underpinned by a concern with "degree" and various ironies and satiric touches. Draws examples from individual descriptions and from the broader pattern of introduction, followed by a "pageant" of details, and a "kind of epilogue." Views the "whole structure" of GP as "a sort of medieval bridge."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification