What Chaucer Really Did to Petrach's Sonnet 132

Author / Editor
Ruud, Jay.

Title
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