My English lit webpages

[Ron Ecker]

I recently put online The Canterbury Tales: A Complete Translation into Modern English. This translation by Dr. Eugene J. Crook and me was published in paperback in 1993.

A lot of professors in the U.S. frown on attempts to render Chaucer in modern English, and I suspect that professors in the UK do even more so. Still, this translation has been adopted over the years in over 100 college courses in the U.S. I thought it was time to make it available online.

http://www.ronaldecker.com/ct.htm

I've also put two of my old college English papers online. (They both got A's, naturally!) For those with an interest in Romantic poetry and in Gerard Manley Hopkins:

The Eolian Harp

http://www.ronaldecker.com/harp.htm

Religious Crisis in Hopkins' Terrible Sonnets

http://www.ronaldecker.com/hopkins.htm

Edited August 18, 2007 by Ron Ecker

[William Kelly]

I recently put online The Canterbury Tales: A Complete Translation into Modern English. This translation by Dr. Eugene J. Crook and I was published in paperback in 1993.

That's terrific Ron. I was trained to teach English and History but never really got around to it.

As for translations into English, they just started putting subtitles on BBC News because Americans can't understand it.

I also have some articles I've written about Walt Whitman and W. Butler Yeats, but I'm afraid to post them.

Well done on Chaucer.

BK

A lot of professors in the U.S. frown on attempts to render Chaucer in modern English, and I suspect that professors in the UK do even more so. Still, this translation has been adopted over the years in over 100 college courses in the U.S. I thought it was time to make it available online.

http://www.ronaldecker.com/ct.htm

I've also put two of my old college English papers online. (They both got A's, naturally!) For those with an interest in Romantic poetry and in Gerard Manley Hopkins:

The Eolian Harp

http://www.ronaldecker.com/harp.htm

Religious Crisis in Hopkins' Terrible Sonnets

http://www.ronaldecker.com/hopkins.htm

[Tim Gratz]

Ditto to Bill's "well done" comment, Ron. (Although I usually prefer my Chaucer medium rare.)

[Ron Ecker]

Bill and Tim, thanks for your comments.

The Bible as literature is often taught by English departments, so I might as well throw in a link to my online biblical commentaries. They are found here:

http://www.ronaldecker.com/bible.htm

Ron