Book Description
This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393925883
This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1625585969
Compiled here are some of Chaucer's shorter poems. These poems are all written using the Dream Vision. To name a few of these peoms: The Book of Duchesse, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women, The House of Fame, and other short poems.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 21,21 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 : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : SMK Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
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ISBN : 9781515428534
Author : Constance B. Hieatt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111342506
No detailed description available for "The realism of dream visions".
Author : J. Stephen Russell
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1976-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521211949
This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691210152
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.