Counterfeiting Chaucer: The Case of 'Dido,' Wyatt, and the 'Retraction'
- Author / Editor
- Miskimin, Alice S.
Counterfeiting Chaucer: The Case of 'Dido,' Wyatt, and the 'Retraction'
- Published
- Studies in Medieval Culture 10 (1977): 133-45.
- Description
- The "Letter of Dido to Aeneas" in Pynson's "Chaucer" (1526), omitted by Thynne (1532), inspired Wyatt to write "Lyke as the swan..."; for him Chaucer was Pynson's edition. Thynne's omission of Ret was not remedied until Urry (1721). Modern editions conceal what readers believed for four centuries to be Chaucerian.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.