The court poetry of Chaucer: a facing-page translation in modern English
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Main Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press ©2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
ISBN:0773412174
9780773412170

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