Dream Poems
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
Dream Poems
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 169-78.
- Description
- Although Chaucer scholarship generally exaggerates the poet's learning, it seems to have missed his use of Huon de Méri's "Tornoiemenz" in LGWP. Scholarship also overemphasizes the visionary features of Chaucer's dream poems, while underestimating the value of treating them as natural dreams, ripe with the "delicious unpredictability of their forward movement" that obviates thematic fatalism. Spearing invites explorations of dream poetry as a subgenre of the "dit," expressive of life experienced in the first person.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations