Prologue to 'The Canterbury Tales' and the Morrison Version

Author / Editor
Salzberg, Albert C.

Title
Prologue to 'The Canterbury Tales' and the Morrison Version

Published
Translation Review 42-43 (1993): 19-23.

Description
Critiques Theodore Morrison's translation of GP for its inaccuracies, losses of irony, and poor poetry, supplying instances of each. The Morrison translation appears in the "Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" and the Macmillan "Literature of the Western World."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.