Thank you. I did put a lot of careful work into structuring this before I started. I'm a bit of a research obsessive so the planning is all part of the fun for me.
Chaucer was the only thing I was deliberately referencing, but I studied Old and Middle English for three years, and I've always drawn on it heavily in my writing. Once you're aware of the elegaic mode, it's hard not to draw on it - English is a language which is so suited to melancholy.
I'm glad you liked it so much. I'm very proud of it.
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Re: bit of a late comment, but I had to tell you -
Date: 2006-07-06 08:58 am (UTC)Chaucer was the only thing I was deliberately referencing, but I studied Old and Middle English for three years, and I've always drawn on it heavily in my writing. Once you're aware of the elegaic mode, it's hard not to draw on it - English is a language which is so suited to melancholy.
I'm glad you liked it so much. I'm very proud of it.
Thanks for the comment.