Dryden Refurbishes Chaucer's Barnyard
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
Dryden Refurbishes Chaucer's Barnyard
- Published
- Archiv 217 (1980): 349-54.
- Description
- The Augustans were the last English poets to possess enough confidence in their own idiom to attempt to make Chaucer their contemporary. Dryden's modernization of Chaucer was intended to achieve verisimilitude for his 17th-century audience. It would surprise him to know that his transformation would require elucidation for 20th-century readers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.