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The Court Poetry of Chaucer: A Facing-Page Translation in Modern English

By James Dempsey

Book information

Publisher
Edwin Mellen Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0773454349, 9780773454347
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (44213964 bytes)
Pages
204\203
Time added
2017-04-19 20:49:58
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

This work offers facing-page translations of lesser-known poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. The modernization of Chaucer s verse to date has been restricted largely to the longer poems such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. While these works demonstrate Chaucer s mastery of the epic and narrative forms, it is in the court poems that we hear what is closer to the actual voice of Chaucer speaking to his contemporaries. The introduction discusses the complaint, a popular medieval genre that Chaucer often used in his verse, sometimes with a straight face, sometimes not. Providing these poems in both their original Middle English and in Modern English, this work will be an attractive addition to the library of any scholar interested in Chaucer and the poetry of his time

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