Translations of Chaucer and Virgil by William Wordsworth
- Author / Editor
- Graver, Bruce E., ed.
Translations of Chaucer and Virgil by William Wordsworth
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- xxviii, 583 pp.
- Series
- The Cornell Wordsworth.
- Description
- Scholarly edition of Wordsworth's modernization of selections from Chaucer (PrT, ManT and part of ManP, a portion of TC, and the apocryphal "Cuckoo and the Nightingale") and portions of Virgil's "Aeneid" and "Georgics," including full apparatus and manuscript facsimiles.
- In his "Introduction" to the Chaucer section (pp. 3-29), Graver surveys modernizations of Chaucer from Dryden to Wordsworth--commenting on Wordsworth's efforts to maintain Chaucerian flavor by archaism--and clarifies the chronology of Wordsworth's translation and its publishing history. Wordsworth's distaste for Dryden's translation resulted from the availability of Tyrwhitt's edition.
- Contributor
- Wordsworth, William.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Troilus and Criseyde.