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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : Hesperus Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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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.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-08-20 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781375748476 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2015-09-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781517564421 |
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The "Parlement of Foules" (also known as the "Parliament of Foules," "Parlement of Briddes," "Assembly of Fowls," "Assemble of Foules," or "The Parliament of Birds") is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) made up of approximately 700 lines. The poem is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza and is the first reference to the idea that St. Valentine's Day is a special day for lovers. The poem begins with the narrator reading Cicero's Somnium Scipionis in the hope of learning some "certeyn thing." When he falls asleep Scipio Africanus the Elder appears and guides him up through the celestial spheres to a gate promising both a "welle of grace" and a stream that "ledeth to the sorweful were/ Ther as a fissh in prison is al drye" (reminiscent of the famous grimly inscribed gates in Dante's Inferno). After some deliberation at the gate, the narrator enters and passes through Venus's dark temple with its friezes of doomed lovers and out into the bright sunlight. Here Nature is convening a parliament at which the birds will all choose their mates. The three tercel (male) eagles make their case for the hand of a formel (female) eagle until the birds of the lower estates begin to protest and launch into a comic parliamentary debate, which Nature herself finally ends. None of the tercels wins the formel, for at her request Nature allows her to put off her decision for another year (indeed, female birds of prey often become sexually mature at one year of age, males only at two years). Nature, as the ruling figure, in allowing the formel the right to choose not to choose, is acknowledging the importance of free will, which is ultimately the foundation of a key theme in the poem, that of common profit. Nature allows the other birds, however, to pair off. The dream ends with a song welcoming the new spring. The dreamer awakes, still unsatisfied, and returns to his books, hoping still to learn the thing for which he seeks.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781530685585 |
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The parlament of foules by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1877 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Author | : Dieter Mehl |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1986-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521318884 |
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This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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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 | : Kellie Robertson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812248651 |
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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.
Author | : Kathryn L. Lynch |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859916004 |
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New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.