Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Parlament of Foules
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Parliament of Birds
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Hesperus Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Dieter MehlPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521318884
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
The Book of the Duchess
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
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.
The Riverside Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: American Chemical Society
ISBN: 0199552096
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
Book Description
A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Nature Speaks
Author: Kellie RobertsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
How to Study Chaucer
Author: Rob PopePublisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333762835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this fresh edition of his tried-and-tested guide, Rob Pope continues to help students get to grips with Chaucer - all the way through from the first tentative encounters with the language to sophisticated critical and historical engagement with Chaucer's narrative art in context. All the commonly studied tales are featured, and each is approached through a series of clear and well-defined steps. In addition to guidance on 'translating' and interpreting Chaucer, there are new sections reviewing key terms and arguments in contemporary critical debates. This is a practical, authoritative and enjoyable handbook that brings the study of Chaucer right up-to-date.
Chaucer's Dream Poetry
Author: Barry A. WindeattPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859910725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.
Chaucer's Philosophical Visions
Author: Kathryn L. LynchPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859916004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.
Chaucer's Dream Poetry
Author: Helen PhillipsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317900472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame. Each have an introduction setting the poem within the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work. Appendices of proper names, pronunciation and criticism are also given. This volume is unique is presenting the poems together in an editorial and critical framework. The quality of annotation is unrivalled and will make this text a major addition to the literature suitable for those interested in the genre, literary, or more general history of the period.