Context, Form, and Text in Lack of Steadfastness

The surviving witnesses to Lack of Steadfastness, conventionally included among Chaucer's lyrics, raise a number of textual and contextual problems mostly overlooked in discussion of Chaucer's short poems. This article explores the evidence for authorship and attribution, the instability o...

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Published in:The Chaucer review 2018-01, Vol.53 (2), p.235-246
Main Authors: Boffey, Julia, Edwards, A. S. G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400)
Criticism
Ethics
Fables
Grammar
Libraries
Lyric poetry
Poetry
Politics
Printing
Reading
Song lyrics
Stanzas
Transmission lines
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Summary:The surviving witnesses to Lack of Steadfastness, conventionally included among Chaucer's lyrics, raise a number of textual and contextual problems mostly overlooked in discussion of Chaucer's short poems. This article explores the evidence for authorship and attribution, the instability of the forms in which the poem survives, and its tendency to disintegration into shorter units or to amalgamation in longer runs of undifferentiated poems.
ISSN:0009-2002
1528-4204
DOI:10.5325/chaucerrev.53.2.0235