The Court Poetry Of Chaucer A Facingpage Translation In Modern English James Dempsey by James Dempsey 9780773454347, 0773454349 instant download after payment.

This work offers facing-page translations of lesser-known poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. The modernization of Chaucer s verse to date has been restricted largely to the longer poems such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. While these works demonstrate Chaucer s mastery of the epic and narrative forms, it is in the court poems that we hear what is closer to the actual voice of Chaucer speaking to his contemporaries. The introduction discusses the complaint, a popular medieval genre that Chaucer often used in his verse, sometimes with a straight face, sometimes not. Providing these poems in both their original Middle English and in Modern English, this work will be an attractive addition to the library of any scholar interested in Chaucer and the poetry of his time