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Lawrence Warner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
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Lawrence Warner posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
this will be the first place that I announce: the International Piers Plowman Society will be holding elections for three positions on its Executive Board, with terms to run for four years from January 15, 2014. We invite nominations of members (sign up for membership at http://www.piersplowman.org > PayPal lower right) who would be interested in…[Read more]
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Lawrence Warner posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
“Or elles swiche as men dye or peynte” Franklin’s Tale 72: can anyone make this scan? No appeal to “Lydgatean” would work. Bigger version of the question: did Chaucer write iambic pentameter, or not?
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My reading of Chaucer’s meter is that it is not nearly as absolute in every line as later formalist verse would be in English. Even Shakespeare, whom we all know did write in iambic pentameter, breaks meter (example “To be or not to be: that is the question.”), and here, if we read “elles” and “swiche” as two-syllable words (anapestic), we end up…[Read more]
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