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Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy

Sheila Fisher
Chaucer s Poetic Alchemy Book PDF

Author : Sheila Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000682946

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Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy by Sheila Fisher Pdf

Originally published in 1988. The economic changes and the growth of commerce in fourteenth century England precipitated both social changes and a preoccupation with material wealth. This book examines Chaucer's treatment of economic and ethical value in The Canterbury Tales within the context of contemporary economic and social change and in relation to the scholastic economic theory that attempted to formulate ethical standards for commercial conduct. The importance of value and its determination and transformation is evident from the two enterprises that Chaucer defines as the motivating principles for his poem. The pilgrimage to St. Thomas's shrine should effect a transformation of their spiritual value. The story-telling competition that produces the tales themselves is established to judge the value of the pilgrims' literary productions. In the Middle Ages, economic value and ethical value were not perceived as unrelated phenomena. Chaucer's concern with the interrelationship of material and moral value is apparent in the number of pilgrims who are interested in material value at the obvious expense of moral value. This book examines this along with a discussion or money's growing importance in the late Middle Ages and the determination of its value.

Love Visions

Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141959894

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Love Visions by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

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.

Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

Curtis Runstedler
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Author : Curtis Runstedler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031266065

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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature by Curtis Runstedler Pdf

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.

Chaucer's Dream Poetry

Helen Phillips,Nick Havely
Chaucer s Dream Poetry Book PDF

Author : Helen Phillips,Nick Havely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900467

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Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Helen Phillips,Nick Havely Pdf

Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame. Each have an introduction setting the poem within the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work. Appendices of proper names, pronunciation and criticism are also given. This volume is unique is presenting the poems together in an editorial and critical framework. The quality of annotation is unrivalled and will make this text a major addition to the literature suitable for those interested in the genre, literary, or more general history of the period.

Minor Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517564417

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Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. Chaucer's works are sometimes grouped into first a French period, then an Italian period and finally an English period, with Chaucer being influenced by those countries' literatures in turn. Certainly Troilus and Criseyde is a middle period work with its reliance on the forms of Italian poetry, little known in England at the time, but to which Chaucer was probably exposed during his frequent trips abroad on court business. In addition, its use of a classical subject and its elaborate, courtly language sets it apart as one of his most complete and well-formed works. In Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer draws heavily on his source, Boccaccio, and on the late Latin philosopher Boethius. However, it is The Canterbury Tales, wherein he focuses on English subjects, with bawdy jokes and respected figures often being undercut with humour, that has cemented his reputation.

The Poetry of Chaucer

Robert Kilburn Root
The Poetry of Chaucer Book PDF

Author : Robert Kilburn Root
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151526162X

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The Poetry of Chaucer by Robert Kilburn Root Pdf

"The Poetry of Chaucer" is a well-arranged, well-written study, its aim being to make accessible to the general reader the fruits of all the scholarly investigations from Tyrwhitt to the present day, so far as they are helpful to a further appreciation of the poet and his work. The book is divided into chapters, which after giving some account of Chaucer's England and Chaucer himself, take up separately "Romaunt of the Rose," the Minor Poems, "Boethius" and the "Astrolabe," "Troilus and Criseyde," the "House of Fame," and "Legend of Good Women," and the "Canterbury Tales." Mr. Root in the appendix adds some brief and valuable suggestions on the study of Chaucer. The author is connected with the English Department of Princeton University. -Educational Review, Volume 33 [1907]

Chaucer the Alchemist

Alexander N. Gabrovsky
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Author : Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137523914

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Chaucer the Alchemist by Alexander N. Gabrovsky Pdf

The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.

Chaucer

Derek Traversi
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Author : Derek Traversi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4974645

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Chaucer by Derek Traversi Pdf

This book traces through Chaucer's earlier poems the development of his understanding of the creative possibilities and the limitations of his art. The discussion includes authority and experience in three works, and demonstrates how the creative process defined in the study led to the masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde.

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature

S. Lightsey
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature Book PDF

Author : S. Lightsey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230605640

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Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature by S. Lightsey Pdf

This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.

Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781605205298

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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343 c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835 1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University is based solely on Chaucer s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat s informative commentary on many passages. Volume VII features works generally appended to collections of Chaucer s work, and sometimes attributed to him, including: Thomas Usk: The Testament of Love The Plowmans Tale Jack Upland John Gower: The Praise of Peace Thomas Hoccleve: The Letter of Cupid John Lydgate: The Complaint of the Black Knight Sir Richard Ros: A Balade: Warning Men to Beware of Deceitful Women and more.

The Poet and the Antiquaries

Megan L. Cook
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Author : Megan L. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812295825

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The Poet and the Antiquaries by Megan L. Cook Pdf

Between 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and they significantly shaped the perceptions of Chaucer that would hold sway for centuries to come. But it is the stories behind these editions that are the focus of Megan L. Cook's interest in The Poet and the Antiquaries. She explores how antiquarians—historians, lexicographers, religious polemicists, and other readers with a professional, but not necessarily literary, interest in the English past—played an indispensable role in making Chaucer a figure of lasting literary and cultural importance. After establishing the antiquarian involvement in the publication of the folio editions, Cook offers a series of case studies that discuss Chaucer and his works in relation to specific sixteenth-century discourses about the past. She turns to early accounts of Chaucer's biography to show how important they were in constructing the poet as a figure whose life and works could be known, understood, and valued by later readers. She considers the claims made about Chaucer's religious views, especially the assertions that he was a proto-Protestant, and the effects they had on shaping his canon. Looking at early modern views on Chaucerian language, she illustrates how complicated the relations between past and present forms of English were thought to be. Finally, she demonstrates the ways in which antiquarian readers applied knowledge from other areas of scholarship to their reading of Middle English texts. Linking Chaucer's exceptional standing in the poetic canon with his role as a symbol of linguistic and national identity, The Poet and the Antiquaries demonstrates how and why Chaucer became not only the first English author to become a subject of historical inquiry but also a crucial figure for conceptualizing the medieval in early modern England.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Dieter Mehl
Geoffrey Chaucer Book PDF

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521318882

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Geoffrey Chaucer by Dieter Mehl Pdf

This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

Geoffrey Chaucer
The Selected Canterbury Tales A New Verse Translation Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393084184

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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

"A truly remarkable achievement." —Barry Unsworth In the tradition of Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and Marie Borroff’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher’s The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England’s premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer’s rhyme and meter, Fisher makes these tales accessible to a contemporary ear while inviting readers to the Middle English original on facing pages. Her informative introduction highlights Chaucer’s artistic originality in his memorable portrayals of surprisingly modern women and men from across the spectrum of medieval society.

It's Transformation, Contently

John McGreal
It s Transformation Contently Book PDF

Author : John McGreal
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781788033558

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It's Transformation, Contently by John McGreal Pdf

John McGreal's three new books – It’s Reproduction, Contently, It’s Revolution, Actively and It’s Transformation, Contently – continue the ‘It’ Series published by Matador since 2010.

Darke Hierogliphicks

Stanton J. Linden
Darke Hierogliphicks Book PDF

Author : Stanton J. Linden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813182872

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Darke Hierogliphicks by Stanton J. Linden Pdf

The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.