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Excerpt from Chapters on the Metric of the Chaucerian Tradition
The first chapter is a brief. Statement of current opinion not intended to be exhaustive, nor more than an adequate starting-point for the succeeding chapters. The second chapter is an attempt to explain and to justify the extraordinary syllabic freedom of the Chaucerians by point ing out the comparatively unnoticed peculiarities of Chaucer's own line; by emphasizing the fact that the free line of the Tradition is an exaggeration of Chaucer's method rather than a break-down into doggerel or tumbling verse. In this chapter I have used freely Bright's theory of resolved stresses. Direct attack has been explained on a psychological basis, and the famous C-type of the decasyllable has been eliminated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
