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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dream Visions and Other Poems by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book Dream Visions and Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2006-05-25
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 894/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Love Visions by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book Love Visions written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2006-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Barry A. Windeatt
Release : 1982
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 725/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaucer's Dream Poetry by : Barry A. Windeatt
Download or read book Chaucer's Dream Poetry written by Barry A. Windeatt. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Emily Dickinson
Release : 2008-09
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis My Letter to the World and Other Poems by : Emily Dickinson
Download or read book My Letter to the World and Other Poems written by Emily Dickinson. This book was released on 2008-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents illustrated versions of well-known poems written by one of America's most renowned poets.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Release : 2012-12-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 969/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Dream Visions of Geoffrey Chaucer by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book The Dream Visions of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2012-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
