Mark McGuinness
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‘Love’s Arrow’ – a translation of Chaucer
© Morgan Library, New York The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer’s epic poem re-telling, in Middle English, the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde amid the Trojan War and the siege of Troy. The original Middle English follows…
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‘The Waterspout’ – a translation of Luis Vaz de Camões
The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Os Lusíadas (‘The Luciads’), an epic poem by the 16th-century Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camões (c. 1524/25 – 1580). Os Lusíadas is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil’s Aeneid. The…