Dryden's Translation of Chaucer: A Problem of Neo-Classical Diction.

Author / Editor
Spector, R. D.

Title
Dryden's Translation of Chaucer: A Problem of Neo-Classical Diction.

Published
Notes and Queries 201 (1956): 23-24.

Description
Compares and contrasts examples of diction in Dryden's translations of CT to explain why Dryden did not translate the low-style fabliaux and to show that Dryden's translations of Chaucer's humorous passages evince metaphysical wit rather than the natural humor of the originals, recurrently regarded as "crude to modern taste."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Language and Word Studies