Dream Visions and Other Poems

Suitable for both beginning and advanced students, Geoffrey Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems are extensively glossed and accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. The contexts section roots the poems in their classical and medieval foundations. The editor has judiciously chosen six critical essays that address the poems' central...

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Suitable for both beginning and advanced students, Geoffrey Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems are extensively glossed and accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. The contexts section roots the poems in their classical and medieval foundations. The editor has judiciously chosen six critical essays that address the poems' central themes. A chronology and selected bibliography are included.

PREFACE
A QUICK COURSE ON CHAUCER’S LANGUAGE
The Texts of Dream Visions and Other Poems
The Book of the Duchess
Introduction
The Book of the Duchess
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PREFACE
A QUICK COURSE ON CHAUCER’S LANGUAGE
The Texts of Dream Visions and Other Poems
The Book of the Duchess
Introduction
The Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
Introduction
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowls
Introduction
The Parliament of Fowls
The Legend of Good Women
Introduction
The Prologue to The Legend of Good Women
The Legendary: Cleopatra, Thisbe, Did, Hypsipyle and Medea
The Legendary: Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela, Phyllis, Hypermnestra
“Anelida and Arcite”
Introduction
“Anelida and Arcite”
Short Poems
Introduction
“An A.B.C.”
“Chaucer’s Words to Adam, His Own Scribe”
“Merciless Beauty”
“To Rosemounde”
“Truth”
“Gentilesse”
“Lack of Steadfastness”
“Envoy to Scogan”
“Envoy to Bukton”
“The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse”
Contexts
Ruth Evans – From Chaucer in Cyberspace: Medieval Technologies of Memory and The House of Fame
Publius Virgilius Maro (“Virgil”) – From The Aeneid
Publius Ovidius Naso (“Ovid”) – From the Heroides and the Metamorphoses
Marcus Tullius Cicero
From Scipio’s Dream
From Commentary on Scipio’s Dream
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius – From The Consolation of Philosophy
Alain de Lille – From The Complaint of Nature
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun – From The Romance of the Rose
Dante Alighieri – From The Divine Comedy
Guillaume de Machaut – From The Fountain of Love
Giovanni Boccaccio – From The Book of Theseus
Criticism
Charles Muscatine – From Chaucer’s Early Poems
A.C. Spearing – The Parliament of Fowls
R. T. Lenaghan From Chaucer’s Circle of Gentlemen and Clerks
Richard Firth Green – Chaucer’s Victimized Women
Elaine Tuttle Hansen – The Feminization of Men in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
Steve Kruger – From Medical and Moral Authority in the Late Medieval Dream
GEOFFREY CHAUCER: A CHRONOLOGY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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