Note 33 — Chapter X · POETIC ACHIEVEMENT IN VERNACULAR
Reading edition
For Chaucer’s knowledge of the poetriæ see J. M. Manly, Chaucer and the rhetoricians, Warton Lecture on English Poetry XVII (read June 2, 1926), printed in Proceedings of the British Academy.
The following pages on Chaucer’s criticism of the poetriæ are adapted from my Cicero on Parnassus, PMLA 42: 106-112 (March, 1927).
For the poetriæ see above, Chapter VII. B.