The Enchanted Landscape: Studies in Middle English Dream Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Haque, Ahsanul.
The Enchanted Landscape: Studies in Middle English Dream Poetry
- Published
- Dacca: University of Dacca, 1981.
- Physical Description
- 120 pp.
- Description
- Summarizes medieval attitudes toward dreams and traces their roots in the Bible and classical tradition, emphasizing their prophetic qualities. Then discusses dream vision conventions and their uses in "Pearl," "Piers Plowman," and several shorter alliterative poems before examining each of Chaucer's dream poems, his various references to dreams in CT, and his depictions of dreams in NPT and TC. Summarizes Chaucer's experimental adaptations of his sources and argues that he presents dreams in ways that are psychologically plausible, considering BD to be his most sophisticated depiction of dream psychology among his dream visions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Legend of Good Women
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations