Landscapes of Love and Poetry: Chaucerian Dream Allegory in England through the Renaissance
- Author / Editor
- Loftin, Alice.
Landscapes of Love and Poetry: Chaucerian Dream Allegory in England through the Renaissance
- Published
- Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 17.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer was famous in the 15th and 16th centuries not as a love poet but as a visionary poet, a dreamer of dream allegories, and as such influenced Lydgate ("Temple of Glas"), Skelton ("Garland of Laurel"), Cowley ("Dream of Elysium"), Douglas, Dunbar, Green, and Breton.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.