{"product_id":"chaucers-dream-visions-medieval-poems-of-love-fame-allegory-and-vision-hardcover","title":"Chaucer's Dream Visions: Medieval Poems of Love, Fame, Allegory, and Vision - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChaucer's Dream Visions\u003c\/em\u003e gathers some of Geoffrey Chaucer's most important shorter poems, where dream, allegory, love, grief, fame, and moral reflection meet in richly imaginative medieval verse.\u003c\/strong\u003e These works show Chaucer before and alongside the achievement of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, experimenting with inherited European forms and making them unmistakably his own. The dream vision allowed Chaucer to move between waking life and symbolic experience, using imagined gardens, courts, birds, goddesses, books, and visionary encounters to explore desire, reputation, loss, poetry, and human uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is especially valuable because it reveals Chaucer as a maker of forms, not merely as the great storyteller of English pilgrimage. Poems such as \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Duchess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe House of Fame\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Parliament of Fowls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e helped establish the English dream vision as a major literary mode; Harvard's Chaucer site notes that \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Duchess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Parliament of Fowls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e provided a model for later poets working in visionary love poetry. Read together, these poems offer a compact and rewarding path into medieval English poetry, courtly love, allegory, early English literary tradition, and the development of Chaucer's art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261976883421,"sku":"9781515428534","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/EP_cQfrPaq9781515428534.webp?v=1785089749","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/chaucers-dream-visions-medieval-poems-of-love-fame-allegory-and-vision-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}