Chaucer--Translated or Obliterated?
- Author / Editor
- Sinclair, Giles.
Chaucer--Translated or Obliterated?
- Published
- College English 15 (1954): 272-77.
- Description
- Attributes the need to use translations of Chaucer's works in college classrooms to students' lack of "linguistic awareness," and assesses the relative virtues of eight translations or modernizations of NPT, commenting on fidelity to meaning, prosody, rhyming, and other stylistic features. Encourages students to "read widely" in translation as well as in Middle English, and lists twenty-six versions of translated or modernized selections from Chaucer's work published between 1870 and 1951.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Nun's Priest and His Tale