Dream Visions and Other Poems

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393925883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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.

Love Visions

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959894
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
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.

Chaucer's Dream Poetry

Author: Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher: 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.

My Letter to the World and Other Poems

Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554531039
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Presents illustrated versions of well-known poems written by one of America's most renowned poets.

Poems of Sleep and Dreams

Author: Peter Washington
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 140004197X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets–Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more–encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the tragic. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Auden’s “Lullaby” to Rossetti’s “Nuptial Sleep,” from Salvatore Quasimodo’s “Insomnia” to Thom Gunn’s “Annihilation of Nothing,”Poems of Sleep and Dreamsevokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep and dream.

The Norton Chaucer

Author: Lawton, David
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393603474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 4

Book Description
Both an enhanced digital edition and a handsome print volume, The Norton Chaucer provides the complete poetry and prose, meticulously glossed and annotated specifically for undergraduate readers, with apparatus reflecting current scholarship—all at an unmatched value.

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Author: Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher: 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.

Medieval Dream-Poetry

Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521211949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.

The English Dream Vision

Author: J. Stephen Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description

The Book of the Duchess

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: 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.