Chaucer's Literary Dreams
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Ian.
Chaucer's Literary Dreams
- Published
- Geardagum 9 (1988): 41-58.
- Description
- Looking at BD, HF, and PF, Robinson examines Chaucer's relations to his masters and his dilemma in connecting books and imagination with actual life, in creating puzzles for the demands he felt "of the poetry of the poem." Chaucer's dreamscapes are weighted by conscious and conscientious concerns to meet those demands. Chaucerian irony attains, in PF, a "means of discovery" wherein the great masters are not a burden but a beginning, whereby the poet attains mastery.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.