Chaucer S Book Of The Duchess
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The Book Of The Duchess
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-10
The Book Of The Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-10 with Poetry categories.
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.
The Book Of The Duchess From The Riverside Chaucer
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Book Of The Duchess From The Riverside Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Poetry categories.
In a dream, the poet joins a hunting party. He comes upon a knight in black, who laments the loss of his lady, tells of her virtues and beauty and declares her dead. The hunting party reappears, a bell strikes twelve, and the poet awakes.
Making Chaucer S Book Of The Duchess
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Author : Jamie C. Fumo
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2015-09-24
Making Chaucer S Book Of The Duchess written by Jamie C. Fumo and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
- provides the first comprehensive overview of the critical history of Book of the Duchess - offers for the first time a thorough analysis of Book of the Duchess’s medieval and early modern reception - establishes Book of the Duchess’s structuring investment in the idea of ‘the book’ – its construction, consumption, and transmission - as it contributes to a poetics of intertextuality
The Book Of The Duchess
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-11
The Book Of The Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with categories.
The Book of the Duchess is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC," and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368 (when Blanche of Lancaster died) and 1372, with many recent studies privileging a date as early as the end of 1368. Overwhelming (if disputed) evidence suggests that Chaucer wrote the poem to commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt. The evidence includes handwritten notes from Elizabethan antiquary John Stowe indicating that the poem was written at John of Gaunt's request. There are repeated instances of the word "White," which is almost certainly a play on "Blanche." In addition, at the end of the poem there are references to a 'long castel', suggesting the house of Lancaster (line 1318) and a 'ryche hil' as John of Gaunt was earl of Richmond (mond=hill) (line 1319) and the narrator swears by St John, which is John of Gaunt's saint's name.
Book Of The Duchess
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Book Of The Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with categories.
The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC", and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose.
A New Introduction To Chaucer
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Author : D. S. Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-15
A New Introduction To Chaucer written by D. S. Brewer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This new introduction to Chaucer has been radically rewritten since the previous edition which was published in 1984. The book is a controversial and modern restatement of some of the traditional views on Chaucer, and seeks to present a rounded introduction to his life, cultural setting and works. Professor Brewer takes into account recent literary criticism, both challenging new ideas and using them in his analysis of Chaucer's work. Above all, there is a strong emphasis on leading the reader to understand and enjoy the poetry and prose, and to try to understand Chaucer's values which are often seen to oppose modern principles. A New Introduction to Chaucer is the result of Derek Brewer's distinguished career spanning fifty years of research and study of Chaucer and contemporary scholarship and criticism. New interpretations of many of the poems are presented including a detailed account of the Book of the Duchess. Derek Brewer's fresh and narrative style of writing will appeal to all who are interested in Chaucer, from sixth-form and undergraduate students who are new to Chaucer's work through to more advanced students and lecturers.
Chaucer S Dream Poetry
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Author : Helen Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-04
Chaucer S Dream Poetry written by Helen Phillips and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Chaucer
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Author : Marion Turner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-22
Chaucer written by Marion Turner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Chaucer S Book Of The Duchess
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Chaucer S Book Of The Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Chaucer S Dream Poetry
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Author : Barry A. Windeatt
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1982
Chaucer S Dream Poetry written by Barry A. Windeatt and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.