Chaucer's Dream Poems
- Author / Editor
- Winny, James
Chaucer's Dream Poems
- Published
- London: Chatto & Windus, 1973.
- Physical Description
- 158 pp.
- Description
- Studies the "meaning of the dream-poems," exploring Chaucer's concerns with the "nature and causes" of dreams, the importance and role of imagination, tensions between courtly and commonplace ideals, and the "contest" between "authority and disorder." Individual chapters on BD, HF, and PF attend to Chaucer's adaptations of sources to underpin thematic readings, and a final chapter assesses how the narrative personae of these poems (and LGWP) anticipate the "essentially comic character" of the narrator of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Parliament of Fowls
- House of Fame
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Canterbury Tales--General