What Chaucer Really Did to Petrach's Sonnet 132
- Author / Editor
- Ruud, Jay.
What Chaucer Really Did to Petrach's Sonnet 132
- Published
- Nicholas Wallerstein and Roger Ochse, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Spearfish, S. D.: Black Hills State University Printing, 2002), pp. 74-83.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 (TC 1.400-420), commenting on his facility with Italian and his comprehension of the sonnet and other verse forms. Chaucer's translation redirects the emphasis of the lyric to concern for universal love, love as disease, and love as freely elected.
- Contributor
- Wallerstein, Nicholas, ed.
- Ochse, Roger, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Lyrics and Short Poems