Walton's Sapient Orpheus
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Ian.
Walton's Sapient Orpheus
- Published
- A. J. Minnis, ed. The Medieval Boethius (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 139-68.
- Description
- In bk. 3, met. 12, of his popular English translation of Boethius, John Walton behaves like a poet-commentator, striving for a contemporary eloquence while drawing on the authority of commentary tradition. In his preface, assuming the role of a wiser Orpheus, he marginalizes Orpheus and the narrator of TC for their excessive "affectivity," presenting himself as a poet of Christian wisdom.
- Alternative Title
- The Medieval Boethius.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.