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Chaucer's Dream Visions: Medieval Poems of Love, Fame, Allegory, and Vision
Hardcover
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9781515428534
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Chaucer's Dream Visions gathers some of Geoffrey Chaucer's most important shorter poems, where dream, allegory, love, grief, fame, and moral reflection meet in richly imaginative medieval verse. These works show Chaucer before and alongside the achievement of The Canterbury Tales, experimenting with inherited European forms and making them unmistakably his own. The dream vision allowed Chaucer to move between waking life and symbolic experience, using imagined gardens, courts, birds, goddesses, books, and visionary encounters to explore desire, reputation, loss, poetry, and human uncertainty.
The collection is especially valuable because it reveals Chaucer as a maker of forms, not merely as the great storyteller of English pilgrimage. Poems such as The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, and The Parliament of Fowls helped establish the English dream vision as a major literary mode; Harvard's Chaucer site notes that The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Fowls provided a model for later poets working in visionary love poetry. Read together, these poems offer a compact and rewarding path into medieval English poetry, courtly love, allegory, early English literary tradition, and the development of Chaucer's art.
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