Notes Toward Chaucer's Poetics of Translation

Author / Editor
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].

Title
Notes Toward Chaucer's Poetics of Translation

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 55-66.

Description
Fluent in English, French, Latin, and Italian, Chaucer realized the burden of responsibility in translating another poet's work. Also highly aware of the mutability of language, he sought to re-create new meaning in translations which he hoped would endure into the future.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.