The Parlament of Foules
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
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In this collection of poems, among his very best, Chaucer showcases his lyrical skills to perfection. Verging from tragic to comic, the overriding theme of the poetry is love, in its many guises. Chaucer tells of his passion for reading, which allows him to eavesdrop on a "parliament of birds" on St Valentine's Day; he tells how he, as an inveterate reader, forsakes his books on the first of May to wander into the fields; he complains of being short of money; and he complains to his scribe for copying his verses badly. All in all, in the course of the poetry he reveals a lot about himself, and does so throughout in an engaging and civilized manner.
Author : Farid ud-Din Attar
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
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Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465576592
Author : Jean-Claude Carrière
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Page : 79 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1982
Category : American drama
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Author : Kellie Robertson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812248651
Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics—what used to be known as "natural philosophy"—and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity.
Author : Michael J. Warren
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2021-03-19
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ISBN : 9781843845911
First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.
Author : Malcolm Andrew
Publisher : Associated University Presses
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780918016737
This volume presents annotated texts of two poems that have not appeared in a previous critical edition. They are specimens of noncourtly minor poetry; the bird convention which links them is formulaic rather than experimental, their mode is predictable, their outlook decidedly conventional. A publication of the Renaissance English Text Society.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141959894
Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.
Author : PatrickGeorge
Publisher : Patrickgeorge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Aquatic animals
ISBN : 9781908473028
Birds.
Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393924787
The most accessible edition of Wordsworth's poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars. This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth's poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the essential texts for studying this author. Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged, thereby allowing readers to trace the author's evolving interests and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated. Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title pages. "Criticism" collects thirty responses to Wordsworth?s poetry and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors. Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill, Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Anne K. Mellor, Michael O?Neill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others. The volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems.