John Walton's 1410 Verse Translation of the 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' in the Context of Medieval Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Kaylor,[Noel] Harold.
John Walton's 1410 Verse Translation of the 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' in the Context of Medieval Tradition
- Published
- Fifteenth-Century Studies 6 (1983): 121-48.
- Description
- Traces the medieval tradition of translating or adapting Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" into vernacular languages, especially French, and argues that Walton's verse translation of 1410 is an "improvement upon his model, Chaucer's prose" Bo, comparing representative samples from Walton and Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Boece