Chaucer as Librettist.

Author / Editor
Mudrick, Marvin.

Title
Chaucer as Librettist.

Published
Philological Quarterly 38 (1959): 21-29.

Description
Critiques attempts to modernize Chaucer's verse for the sake of the "common reader," preferring Augustan "imitations" to twentieth-century renderings in verse or prose, but finding them all to be relatively dull and incapable of replicating Chaucer's "universally expressive idiom."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Style and Versification