Chaucer and the Trots: What to Do About Those Modern English Translations
- Author / Editor
- Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer and the Trots: What to Do About Those Modern English Translations
- Published
- Chaucer Review 19 (1985): 290-301.
- Description
- Translations of Chaucer are inadequate and have no place in serious literary scholarship. Reviews of translations are also misleading since they may suggest that modern English versions lift a veil from the opacity of Chaucer's poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.