Some Problems in Translating Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Wilcockson, Colin.
Some Problems in Translating Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- Anglistik 21.1 (2010): 49-58.
- Description
- Exemplifies several difficulties in translating Chaucer's verse into modern verse or modern prose, commenting on concerns with "tonal register," rime riche, semantic change, taboo words, pronouns of address, the historical present, rhyming tags, and "ingressive" versus intensifying uses of "gan."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.