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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWTRXK
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060386581
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 : CreateSpace
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517564425
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,Charles Maxwell Drennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1375748475
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015000621956
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021073564
Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521318882
This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:470123328
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530685583
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 : Kathleen Coyne Kelly,Marina Leslie
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874136490
The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547167389
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 : Robert Eugene Thackaberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858014394872
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533604355
Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls' is a story about love, lust, honour, nature . . . and ducks. Simon Webb's highly accessible modern English verse translation conveys the humour and colour of Chaucer's original, and Simon's introduction explains why the poem is now considered to be the work that first introduced the idea of Valentine's Day as we know it. With introduction, glossary and further reading.
