The Parliament of Birds
The Parliament of Birds

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Hesperus Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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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.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Author: Dieter Mehl

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1986-12-18

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521318884

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

Nature Speaks
Nature Speaks

Author: Kellie Robertson

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-03-09

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0812248651

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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.

The Book of the Duchess
The Book of the Duchess

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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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.

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions
Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Author: Kathryn L. Lynch

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780859916004

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New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition
Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition

Author: Hugh White

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780198187301

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'Nature' is a highly important term in the ethical discourse of the Middle Ages and, as such, a leading concept in medieval literature. This book examines the moral status of the natural in writings by Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others, showinghow-particularly in the erotic sphere-the influences of nature are not always conceived as wholly benign. Though medieval thinkers often affirm an association of nature with reason, and therefore with the good, there is also an acknowledgement that the animal, the pre-rational, the instinctivewithin human beings may be validly considered natural. In fact, human beings may be thought to be urged almost ineluctably by the force of nature within them towards behaviour hostile to reason and the right.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Author: John M. Bowers

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0198842678

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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.