Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature This comes perilously near the circulus viltiosus. Again, Mr. Lounsbury asserts that the translator "pretty certainly spoke the Midland dialect from his birth." "It is plainly the one which he was accustomed to use," he adds, "and which in this version he did use. Upon this point there will be no difference of opinion" (II, 38). But Skeat, in a letter elsewhere cited by Mr. Lounsbury, has set up an entirely different theory. According to him, the author of a large part of the translation (the so-called fragment A 2) was a Northerner, who, in attempting to write in Chaucer´s dialect, relapsed occasionally into his native habits of speech. This theory, which has the cases of the Kingis Quair and Lancelot of the Laik (E. E. T. S., 1865)in its favor, accounts for the phenomena quite as well as Mr. Lounsbury´s hypothesis, and does not, like the latter, come into collision with the grammatical and metrical tests. Mr. Lounsbury, who does not notice Skeat´s suggestion, maintains that Chaucer´s own language is not free from Northernisms. In support of this assertion he brings forward the well-known instances of -es in the second and third person singular of the indicative in the Book of the Duchesse (73, 257) and the Hous of Fame (426, 1908). This use of -es he calls a most distinctive peculiarity of the Northern dialect (II, 46). But -es in the second and third person singular is no sign of the Northern dialect. It is, on the contrary, the regular West Midland termination, at home as well in the South-west Midland as in the North-west Midland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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