The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer a Modern Rendering Into Prose of the Prologue and Ten Tales (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Demosthenes, Demosthenes

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ISBN 10: 1440081387 ISBN 13: 9781440081385

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Modern Rendering Into Prose of the Prologue and Ten Tales

Briefly, then, the method followed has been to present, so far as possi ble, Chaucer's ipsissi/ma verba; to err rather in the direction of literal fidelity than literary license. No archaisms, however, have been retained which are not fairly intelligible. The necessary changes which have been made are: first, omissions on the score of propriety, of intelligibility (as when a long paraphrase would have been required for a trivial matter), and (very seldom) of redundancy; secondly, rare and slight rearrangements for the sake of clearness; thirdly, translation and paraphrase required by clearness and the necessities of prose-style. Proper names have been altered to their classical or modern forms only in the case of historical characters or places fairly familiar to-day. The text of Professor Skeat has been followed almost always and his notes very largely.

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Preface THE barrier of obsolete speech is the occasion and the apology for this rendering of the Canterbury Tales in English easily intelligible to-day. Whether this barrier be real, or but generally assumed, matters little, for the assumption itself is obstructive and tends equally to the resultant fact, that in spite of the immensely widened interest inC haucer and the diffused knowledge of his works due to labours of profound scholarship in the last fifty years a very large proportion of the educated public still receives its impressions of the poet at second hand, from literary hearsay, or the epitomising essays of critics. To present, therefore, a representative portion of Chaucer sunfinished masterpiece in such form as shall best preserve for a modern reader the substance and style of the original, is the chief aim of this book. When the publishers asked me to carry out this object, the nature of the appropriate form presented itself for solution. As modernisation, the undertaking is not new. At various epochs, and with varying scope of design, poets such as Dryden, Pope, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Barrett, Wordsworth, have contrived metrical versions of the Canterbury Tales in the literary forms of their own day. Lesser poets and writers of the past two centuries have executed the like. Their versions possess in common the aim of substituting modernE nglish verse for Chaucer s, often as an alleged latterday improvement. A ll, asP rofessor Lounsbury has shown, had a direct tendency at the time to divert men from the study of the original.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440081387
• ISBN 13: 9781440081385
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264