Dryden's Translation of Chaucer: A Study of the Means of Re-creating Literary Models
- Author / Editor
- Levy, Robert Allen.
Dryden's Translation of Chaucer: A Study of the Means of Re-creating Literary Models
- Published
- DAI 34.08 (1974): 5108A.
- Description
- Summarizes John Dryden's theory of translation in his "Fables Ancient and Modern," and explores the discrepancy between this theory and his practice in his translations of KnT, NPT, and WBT, all of which "violate the spirit of their originals."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Knight and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale