Download or read book The Parlament of Foules written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parliament of Birds written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer written by Dieter Mehl and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-12-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
Download or read book Nature Speaks written by Kellie Robertson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Book of the Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Chaucer s Philosophical Visions written by Kathryn L. Lynch and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.
Download or read book Parliament of Fowls written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Chaucer s Parlement of Foules written by Haldeen Braddy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer and His Readers written by Seth Lerer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser to kings and master of technique, and Lerer reveals the patterns of subjection, childishness, and inability that characterize the stance of Chaucer's imitators and his readers. In figures from the Canterbury Tales such as the abused Clerk, the boyish Squire, and the infantilized narrator of the "Tale of Sir Thopas," in the excuse-ridden narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, and in Chaucer's cursed Adam Scriveyn, the poet's inheritors found their oppressed personae. Through close readings of poetry from Lydgate to Skelton, detailed analysis of manuscript anthologies and early printed books, and inquiries into the political environments and the social contexts of bookmaking, Lerer charts the construction of a Chaucer unassailable in rhetorical prowess and political sanction, a Chaucer aureate and laureate.
Download or read book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wordsworth s Poetry and Prose written by William Wordsworth and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accessible edition of Wordsworth's poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars. This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth's poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the essential texts for studying this author. Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged, thereby allowing readers to trace the author's evolving interests and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated. Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title pages. "Criticism" collects thirty responses to Wordsworth?s poetry and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors. Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill, Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Anne K. Mellor, Michael O?Neill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others. The volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems.
Download or read book Tolkien s Lost Chaucer written by John M. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer written by Piero Boitani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
Download or read book Chaucer written by Derek Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Riverside Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by American Chemical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Download or read book Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine written by Henry Ansgar Kelly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rereading Chaucer and Spenser written by Rachel Stenner and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality.
