modernizations

Updated: June 14, 2025

His Fables modernizations from Chaucer and translations from Boccaccio, written the year before he died are among his best works. Dryden is also our first critic of any importance. His critical essays were mostly written as prefaces or dedications to his poems and plays. But his Essay of Dramatic Poesie, which Dr.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson

Of course, too, the skill and conscientiousness of the copyists varied enormously. Finally, besides copies, we have to reckon with variations and modernizations in every degree of earlier works. Under these circumstances it will easily be seen that the task of reconstructing a lost original from extant imitations is a very delicate and perilous one.

Frank Bigelow Tarbell - A History of Greek Art