Chaucer's Prayers in the Dream Visions and the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Fleming, Kevin Sean.

Title
Chaucer's Prayers in the Dream Visions and the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 4419A, 1999.

Description
The pagan prayers of Chaucerian characters are granted twice as often as the Christian ones. Pagan deities function as poetic machinery; the Christian God, as source of divine truth. Throughout his oeuvre, the poet treats prayer in accordance with Boethian philosophy.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.
Legend of Good Women.
House of Fame.
Book of the Duchess.
Canterbury tales--General.