The Court Poetry of Chaucer: A Facing-Page Translation in Modern English
- Author / Editor
- Dempsey, James, trans.
The Court Poetry of Chaucer: A Facing-Page Translation in Modern English
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2007.
- Physical Description
- ii, 192 pp.
- Description
- Modernizations of Chaucer's short poems, maintaining original rhyme schemes and metrical patterns, with facing-page texts from The Riverside Chaucer and Walter Skeat's edition. Includes, in the following order, ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ros, Wom Nob, Adam, Sted, Form Age, For, Truth, Gent, Ven, Scog, Buk, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d'Am, MercB, Bal Compl, Prov, and Anel. The introduction (pp. 1-12) comments on the practice and history of modernizing Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Lyrics and Short Poems.