The Romaunt of the Rose : rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer; and illustrated by Keith Henderson & Norman Wilkinson of Four Oaks.

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The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer; with an introduction by Thomas R. Lounsbury.

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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer /

At head of title: The globe edition.

The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer /

Accompanied by "Cancelled sheets of the latter portion of the Testament of love." ([Chaucerian & other pieces ... p.113-159])

The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer /

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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer /

Mode of access: Internet.

Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer : with poems formerly printed with his or attributed to him /

v. 1-2. Canterbury tales -- v. 3. Troylus and Cryseyde, etc. -- v. 4. Romaunt of the rose, etc.

The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, to which are appended poems attributed to Chaucer;

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The knightes tale, from the Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Geoffrey Chaucer's The prologue to the book of the tales of Canterbury : The Knights tale : The nun's priest's tale /

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The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer,

Mode of access: Internet.

Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer; with poems formerly printed with his or attributed to him.

v. 1-2. Canterbury tales.- v. 3. Troylus and Cryseyde, etc.-v. 4. Romaunt of the rose, etc.

The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Mode of access: Internet.

The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer /

Three-quarter bound in maroon levant morocco, with gilt borders and tooling on spine; marbled covers and endpapers; gilt top edge; uncut.

Chaucer's "makyng" of the Romaunt of the Rose

Despite its being the first testimony of Chaucer’s genius, the interest of modern criticism in the Romaunt has mainly focused on the issue of authorship, whereas the efforts to assess this text as a translation have been limited both in their number and in their scope. This paper discusses Chaucer’s translation of the Roman de la Rose, and provides an evaluation of Fragment A from a modern traductological perspective, while taking account of contemporary theoretical positions. First, this article compares the Romaunt with Chaucer’s later translating practice. Second, taking into account that the immediate audience of the Romaunt would have been cognizant of French, this essay considers the pragmatic function of this translation. Finally, I reconstruct some of Chaucer’s decisions in the translation process, and then I present the translation strategies he adopted in order to create an English metapoem which replicated the spirit of the Roman, thus proving the adequacy of English for poetic expression.