Chaucerian poetics are the subject of Eleanor Johnson’s dissertation in English, Toward a Chaucerian Poetics: Chaucer’s Prosimetrics. Chaucer, she finds, at times promises poetry and delivers prose. Johnson studies Chaucer’s translations and adaptations of Latin and Italian works as well as his Canterbury Tales in order to illuminate how Chaucer understood the functions of poetry and prose, “high” and “low” verbal arts.