Chaucer S Poetic Alchemy
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Chaucer S Poetic Alchemy
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Author : Sheila Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-16
Chaucer S Poetic Alchemy written by Sheila Fisher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Minor Poems
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-09-28
Minor Poems 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 2015-09-28 with categories.
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.
Love Visions
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-05-25
Love Visions written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-25 with Poetry categories.
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.
The Selected Canterbury Tales A New Verse Translation
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2012-04-09
The Selected Canterbury Tales A New Verse Translation written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-09 with Poetry categories.
"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.
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.
The Poetry Of Chaucer
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Author : Robert Kilburn Root
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-07-28
The Poetry Of Chaucer written by Robert Kilburn Root and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with categories.
"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
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Author : Derek Traversi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Chaucer written by Derek Traversi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Alchemy And Exemplary Poetry In Middle English Literature
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Author : Curtis Runstedler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-27
Alchemy And Exemplary Poetry In Middle English Literature written by Curtis Runstedler and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Poetry Of Chaucer
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Author : Robert Kilburn Root
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-07-06
Poetry Of Chaucer written by Robert Kilburn Root and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-06 with categories.
"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.
The Canterbury Tales
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Canterbury Tales 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 2020 with Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages categories.
"This is a new edition of The Selected Canterbury Tales translated by Sheila Fisher, the first edition of which was published by Norton in 2011. It is part of a series of affordable paperback classics called The Norton Library, which is intended for use in college courses"--