'The Complaint of Venus': Chaucer and de Graunson
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Helen.
'The Complaint of Venus': Chaucer and de Graunson
- Published
- Roger Ellis and Ruth Evans, eds. The Medieval Translator, 4. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 123. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994), pp. 86-103.
- Series
- The Medieval Translator, no. 04.
- Medieval Texts & Studies, no. 123.
- Description
- Compares the diction of Chaucer's Ven with that of its sources (three of Otto de Graunson's ballades) to explore how Chaucer reconceived "what de Graunson had written for a male speaker as an expression of a woman's feelings." The speaker of the poem is presented as a translator and, like other Chaucerian narrator-translators, is feminine or feminized. Includes the text of Ven and its sources.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Venus
- Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations.