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Excerpt from Chaucer Und Der Rosenroman: Eine Litterargeschichtliche Studie
Im anschluss hieran erklarte W. W. Skeat, A Further Note on the Romaunt of the Rose (academy Sept. 8, 1888 p. 153) nochmals: fragment A li. E. Is precisely the part which he [sc. Chaucer] could not have written, for it is the part which most contradicts Chaucer's rimes, grammar, dialect and diction in almost every conceivable point. Und wenn derselbe gelehrte auch im gegensatz zu Lindner in der einleitung zu seiner ausgabe von Chaucer's Minor Poems, Ox ford 1888, p. XXV etwas weniger bestimmt die autorschaft Chancers flir den zweiten theil zuriiekwies (i will only add here my own conviction, that if any part of the English trans lation of this poem is by Chaucer, it is fragment B [i. E. 5814 (5811) ft]; and even against this I believe that something (yet much less) can be so hat or doch spater in einem briefe an die Academy (july 19, 1890 p. 51) sich wieder ganz entschieden gegen die echtheit dieses letzten theiles erklart.
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