Daphne into Laurel: Translations of Classical Poetry from Chaucer to the Present
- Author / Editor
- Stoneman, Richard.
Daphne into Laurel: Translations of Classical Poetry from Chaucer to the Present
- Published
- London: Duckworth, 1982.
- Physical Description
- vi, 330 pp.
- Description
- An anthology of translations from Greek and Roman by English writers, including a section on Chaucer (pp. 32-33) with a brief (and erroneous) biography and a selection from Chaucer's Dido legend (LGW 1180-1209), from Virgil's "Aeneid" 4.129-50, presented as "almost the only direct piece of translation" of the classics by Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations